On 29/03/16 11:44, Małgorzata Barchańska [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > I'm very curious - so what makes our database file so big? Sum of clear > metadata > and raw data is about 2,4GB, and what with other 12GB? Is anything we > can do to shrink our big database file (drop useless indexes or > something like that)? You could try running your database through gstat.exe (in your bin-directory of Filebird, if you installed the development tools with it). You can learn a lot about the way the database-pages are filled per table.
You can find a manual for it here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-gstat.pdf Grtz, Rik
