I have a 30GB database that seems to be growing moderately every month. I have about 55% free disk space and was wondering if it would be wise to consider defragging the database and shrinking the size. I know you have to have twice the size of the database + 10% to do a successful defrag or integrity check. I can't add anymore physical disk as the drive bays are full. My concern is this: In 9 months we will be moving to Exchange 2007. I am concerned that during thenext nine months I may face the unlikely event that I have to to an integrity check on the database and I will not have enough space to do this if the database continues to grow. I am trying to be proactive even though the chance is unlikely I will need to do this. Any opinions? Thanks, Alex

Do you have ANYWHERE with enough space? You don't HAVE to defrag in place, you cancopy the DB and the utility to another drive/server and run from there. Just be sure to leave Exchange Services off. If/when it runs successfully, you can replace with the smaller, cleaner DB.