During a troubleshooting session, a SW technician informed me that using the using the DB Shrink (aka DB Compact) feature is SQL Server is not recommended by SolarWinds. Supposedly, whenever this is done, it leads to fragmentation issues. The problem with that advice is that the DB Maintenance applet does not seem to perform any kinds of shrinking of the database. So, I suggest for the SW developers to tweak the DB Maintenance applet so it will perform its own version of DB compacting during the process.
Perhaps some of you have other ways to deal with this concern -- I would very much like to learn from you. Otherwise, please consider voting for this idea. Many thanks!