Is it safe to delete database files?

Is it good to delete data from database?

Keeping your users data and adding more and more users data will eventually pile up and create a large database to manage. So, if you really don't need the data then delete it. If you still want to keep it then keep it in the archived database so that it won't get loaded for every time you load the live database.

Can I delete a database file?

Expand Databases, right-click the database from which to delete the file, and then click Properties. Select the Files page. In the Database files grid, select the file to delete and then click Remove. Click OK.

What happens when you delete data files?

When you delete a file, all you've really done is tell the computer that it can reuse the clusters assigned to that file for something new. The data in those clusters remains intact, until the computer reassigns and overwrites those chunks of disk space with new files.

Is it OK to delete SQL log files?

In some cases, the Microsoft SQL Server Database Transaction Log (. LDF) file becomes very huge. It's wasting a lot of disk space and causing some problems if you want to backup and restore the database. We can delete the log file and create a new log file with the minimum size.