We were saving unnecessary logging data in our database. One table grew to 1 million records, 99% of that is now gone.
We have db size of 40gb and freespace of 24gb.
Whats the best way to regain that space (and consequently reduce the size of our back ups).
Our recovery mode is simple. Can we just use the auto shrink setting in management studio ?
Edit
Probably worth noting that there was no need to shrink the DB to reduce the size of backup. Just removing the data is good enough. Our backups are now 9gb.