Hello, I know that shrinking datafiles is not recommended but in my case we have large amounts of unused space that we know won't grow to the large size it once was.
So when I specified the target size which the gui would say minimum size is like 5 GBs (size used) for a particular datafile (which is just one of many within it's filegroup) and then run it, it does shrink down to 5 GBs but now in the size used it mentions less like 2 GBs used.
I thought being 5 GBs size would also say 5 GBs used since gui mentioned that was the minimum size.
Anyone can help clarify this and what's going on?
Thanks in advance.