reclaim unsued space in sql 2008

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I have a table with more than 300.000 records, that weights approximately 1.5 GB

In that table I have three varchar(5000) fields, the rest are small fields

I issue an update, setting those three fields to ''

An after a shrink (database and files) the database uses almost the same space as before...

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE(N'DataBase' )
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'DataBase' , 1757)
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'DataBase_log' , 344)

any idea?

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