https://mortenankerstjerne.com/tags/data-warehouse/ Recent content in Data Warehouse on Morten Ankerstjerne Hugo en-us Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:03:26 +0200 https://mortenankerstjerne.com/posts/2025/stop-shrinking-stage/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mortenankerstjerne.com/posts/2025/stop-shrinking-stage/ <h2 id="background">Background</h2> <p>If you&rsquo;ve worked with data warehouse development on Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably had a run-in with your SAN-admin at some point, complaining about the size of your databases, and asking if you can do some cleanup to free up disk space.</p> <p>What often ends up happening is, you take look at the database files and realize there&rsquo;s a lot of free space that could be released, especially if you have a database dedicated to staging transformed data, before loading it into data marts.</p>