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My database has 16MB of space left

I used to just truncate as I was taught but I found these links that advise against truncating

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/why-you-should-not-shrink-your-data-files/

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/01/19/sql-server-shrinking-database-is-bad-increases-fragmentation-reduces-performance/

Is there anything else I can do on my database to reduce the size other then deleting table records? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

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You should most definitely look for ways to increase storage space as a long term solution. Having only 15MB left in database can easily lead to corruption and database going offline.

If you’re on SQL Server 2008+ you can try to enable its native data compression.