
I have blogged several times about unusually large MSDB databases like here. Most of the time the problem comes from the backup history which is never purged. This time it’s different. Try to guess, if not the backup history, what can cause MSDB to increase abnormally in size? Let’s start by looking at the total size of the database: It’s huge. The database size is almost 90GB. The 10% configuration on data files causes large…