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DavidRH
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20 days ago
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Elastic pool's space after app removal.

Hi guys! This is my first post so sorry if this question is out of place. I have an environment with a couple of applications that I want to remove. My question is, if I remove them using the ...
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  • rhankey's avatar
    rhankey
    19 days ago

    A DB shrink reclaims disk space of individual databases.  Deleting an OS App and its underlying application database should give the disk space back to the DB server right away.

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T_Kress
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20 days ago

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe you get the space back right away.  A database shrink needs to be run to reclaim the space. That happens once a month on I believe the second weekend of each month.

Again, someone can correct if this is wrong.

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    rhankey
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    19 days ago

    A DB shrink reclaims disk space of individual databases.  Deleting an OS App and its underlying application database should give the disk space back to the DB server right away.