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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Deletes - and compression of data files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.155028.27600@informix.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:50:28 GMT
- References: <1egjdrINNfkj@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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- Jack Parker writes:
- >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?
-
- OnLine has assorted "reclamation" stuff that it does, so that you should
- not wind up with a "swiss cheese" situation (reuse of freed pages, page
- compression, etc.).
-
- What OnLine will NOT do is return pages allocated to an extent (or an
- empty extent, for that matter) back to the dbspace. Once an extent has
- been allocated to a able, it will always be allocated to that table
- (unless, of course, you drop or alter the table).
-
- Dave
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