Our software provider for our CMS had us enable an audit on a table. What this did was create a HUGE table (43GB) which was eventually dropped after the auditing was complete. (We were looking for an error)
Disk space is down to 10GB. The database was normally around 2.6GB. The MDF file grew to 48GB because of this and since the space is claimed by SQL, the MDF stays at this size.
I have the server set up in a RAID1 set up. There are no extra disk spaces as there are two logical drives with only 4 hot swappable drives. 1 Mirror has the OS and a live DB, the other mirror has a live DB on it also.
I was thinking about increasing the disk space by hot swapping larger disks and increasing the size within the RAID itself and leaving as is.
Any suggestions on the easiest/fastest way to reclaim this space?