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Tables dropped - must give up space to other databases

I have a dev database that is 220G. It is set to simple recovery. I truncated some tables that we did not need for development so now I have 120GB free space inside this dev database. However, I need space for other databases to grow on the same server and I want to give up as much as I can of this 120GB back to the OS. How do I give the space back to the OS?
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I guess this is the only case when you should shrink your datafiles DBCC SHRINKFILE ('filename', 120000) GO Remember to rebuild your indexes when you'r done, and use the SORT\_IN_TEMPDB option to save space in your database
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