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How can I can I reduce the size of a SQL Server database after being restored and massive embedded files stripped?

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My project has the following set up for the production and preproduction ("clone") environment.

  • Production is not accessible at all for the development team, only the preproduction database.
  • Preproduction database is restored each day, but a post-restore script is run to strip away sensitive data such as embedded files (VARBINARY(MAX)) and e-mail addresses
  • This process leaves a preproduction database of about 50GB with 46GB available space which means that a lot of space is wasted

How can I optimize the used storage for the restored database?

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One way to solve this is to shrink the database and reindex all tables to fix the indexes fragmentation:

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (TheDatabase);
GO

-- reindexing all tables to optimize performance after the DB shrink
declare @TableSchema varchar(255)
DECLARE @TableName varchar(255) 
 
DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, table_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
WHERE table_type = 'BASE TABLE' 
 
OPEN TableCursor 
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableSchema, @TableName 
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 
BEGIN
	declare @TN varchar(255) = @TableSchema + '.' + @TableName
	print 'Reindexing ' + @TN
	DBCC DBREINDEX(@TN,' ',90) 
	FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableSchema, @TableName 
END
 
CLOSE TableCursor 
DEALLOCATE TableCursor
GO

I am not sure if there are any side effects after performing this.

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