How to analyze the increase in the size of databases ?

Андрей Михалевский 3,401 Reputation points
2025-01-30T15:24:06.1366667+00:00

Hello. We have significantly increased the size of our databases, we don't understand for what reasons.

What are the methods to analyze? What should be analyzed? Maybe there are some approaches, scripts?

Exchange 2016 on-premise.

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  1. Andy David - MVP 152.1K Reputation points MVP
    2025-01-30T15:55:52.05+00:00

    There really isnt anything to analyze that any longer. There used to be free script to look at these things.

    The best you can do now is:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/get-storeusagestatistics?view=exchange-ps


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