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Posted on by snoppy 4,824

Hi experts, does the .bak file accurately reflects the database size? Thanks!

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    Stefano Demiliani 37,172 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Normally no. The backup covers only the real data you have (page used), while the database files (mdf, ldf) can have more free space allocated for them (as an example, you can have a 100GB database allocated where only 85 GB are used).

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