# The Dynamics GP Blogster: Why shouldn’t I shrink my Microsoft Dynamics GP databases?

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/the-dynamics-gp-blogster-why-shouldnt-i-shrink-my-microsoft-dynamics-gp-databases/
- Date: 2011-02-15
- Topics: SQL & Data, Microsoft & the GP Ecosystem
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: http://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-shouldnt-i-shrink-my-microsoft.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDynamicsGpBlogster+%28The+Dynamics+GP+Blogster%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Mariano looks at why shrinking your GP database is bad. Ah, Ah, Ah, don’t explain all the reasons to me, it’s still bad. When Paul Randall says it’s bad and his team wrote the SQL Server 2005 storage engine, it’s bad. When Mariano says it’s bad, well, you get the idea. Now get the details about why at [The Dynamics GP Blogster: Why shouldn’t I shrink my Microsoft Dynamics GP databases?](http://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-shouldnt-i-shrink-my-microsoft.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDynamicsGpBlogster+%28The+Dynamics+GP+Blogster%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)