Remove datafiles

You need at least two datafiles in the filegroup for this first command to work, as it has to move the data some where.

dbcc shrinkfile('filename', emptyfile);
alter database databasename remove file logicalfilename;

Its best to ran this within a sql-job as shrinkfile can take ages.

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