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- From: anasaz!qip.naomi@enuucp.eas.asu.edu (Naomi Walker)
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- Date: 20 Nov 1992 09:38:04 -0500
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- >
- > In the good old days of SE, a table with a high level of activity
- > (i.e. deletions/inserts) became riddled with old data row slots
- > which were available for re-write, and the index began to look like
- > swiss cheese. To correct this periodic unload/loads or cluster
- > manipulation or ALTER TABLE (same as an unload/load but more user-friendly)
- > were needed to keep index and data table efficiency at peak.
- >
- > Is this also true of Online? Or does Online do this automagically?
- >
- Raw Online space does get very fragmented, especially if you are short
- of room in the partition. Table extents become very small and numerous
- and it causes performance problems. Tables can generally have about
- 240 extents, and it is possible to reach that value and come to a grinding
- halt.
-
- We regularly monitor all our production systems extents and partition
- fragmention. Tbunloading and tbloading the database back typically puts
- all the data for each table in the first extent (if there is enough
- contiguous room). We then carefully set all the next extents on the
- tables, to accomodate future growth. If tbunloading is unreasonable
- because of the database size, we will create an empty new table, with
- the first extent set, and copy the data from the old table to the
- new table.
-
-
-
- --
- Naomi Walker (aka N7FSA) naomi%anasaz.UUCP@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
-
- Enthusiasm is caught, In tennis,
- not taught. love means nothing.
-