Deleted Records space

Am new to SQL2000, but have worked with other RDBMS's.
I am wondering what the procedure is to recover the space taken up in a
database by records marked for deletion?
Is this something automatically done as part of the shrink database procedure?
Kind Regards,
Naj
Hi
As soon as a row is deleted, it's space can be occupied by other data. It is
best to re-index the clustered keys as this will re-organize the DB to it's
original fill factor again. Shrink DB will not help you in this case.
Regards
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"Naj Parandah" <Naj Parandah@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Am new to SQL2000, but have worked with other RDBMS's.
> I am wondering what the procedure is to recover the space taken up in a
> database by records marked for deletion?
> Is this something automatically done as part of the shrink database
> procedure?
> Kind Regards,
> Naj
|||Thanks very much for the information Mike!
"Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" wrote:

> Hi
> As soon as a row is deleted, it's space can be occupied by other data. It is
> best to re-index the clustered keys as this will re-organize the DB to it's
> original fill factor again. Shrink DB will not help you in this case.
> Regards
> --
> Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
> Zurich, Switzerland
> IM: mike@.epprecht.net
> MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
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