If you have a SQL server free edition and it isn’t working with the message:
CREATE/ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 2048 MB per database.
Unfortunately the ”dbcc cleantable “ does not help, it cleans the table unused space BUT the shrink operation does not decrease the database size 
You have another option: reorganize the indexes and shrink the db: it works giving you some hours of new life, just the time to install SQL2008 express R2 with 8GB limit
Follow this steps:
- Open Sql Server Management Studio
- Run sp_helpdb ‘YourDb’ and save the results
- Analyze the tables with the bigger size, use this script:
http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/121/determing-sql-server-table-size.aspx - Change in the script the final query :
- from:
SELECT *
FROM #TempTable - To :
SELECT *
FROM #TempTable
order by cast(replace(IndexSize,' KB','') as int) desc - Run the query and identify the worst tables
- Open the Tables, Index and click on “Reorganize all”
- Shrink the DB
- Run sp_helpdb ‘YourDb’ and compare the results with the old one
- Install the new SQL server and try to migrate the databases, but this is another story…..
Hope it helps!
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