Recently we have archived some of data from one of very large production database and need to shrink all data files to reacquire disk space.
Problem is that its taking too much time and we are unable to find out how much work is done by DBCC ShrinkDatabase
so we can estimate remaining execution time.
Is there any quick way to get completion percentage of DBCC ShrinkDatabase
task ?
Best Answer
Well, you shouldn't ever be using
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
, IMHO - if you need to shrink files at all, you should think twice, maybe even three times, and even in the odd case where it really is warranted (hint: this should be rare), you should target each file individually usingDBCC SHRINKFILE
. Please read every single word on this page.Anyway, you can see the progress using:
Documentation for
sys.dm_exec_requests
.