Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about SQL Server. Please respond like you're talking to a home user. :)
We have an application that requires a SQL Server database. Installed, up and running, everything is great. Fast forward. I now have an almost 2TB .ldf file and 0MB of free space on the server. Attempted to 'shrink' the database, but appears to have done nothing. I've deleted pretty much everything I can delete from the hard drive, and the .ldf file just grows to take up the available space.
How do I shrink this file back down to a reasonable size? Say, 1TB or less? Help!?!
Thank you.