Re: 1 Table and its Indexes occupying 30% space of the Database.

2002-05-13 Thread Anjo Kolk
By the time you have to worry, you will have retired from the job ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a table in my database ( size 70GB ) with size of 7GB and it has 13 indexes on it. 5 Indexes are of the size 2 GB and rest are around 500-800Mb. Total size of the table and

RE: 1 Table and its Indexes occupying 30% space of the Database.

2002-05-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Deepender - Wracking my brain to recall 7.3. Is partitioning a feature? One thing you might consider is to keep each of the indexes in its own tablespace. This will give you more flexibility. I would also keep track of the size each week to help you forecast growth. Size restrictions will depend

RE: 1 Table and its Indexes occupying 30% space of the Database.

2002-05-13 Thread Hand, Michael T
What about max # of datafiles? If you're added them every 2 weeks what about making them larger? After all, not many systems are restricted by the 2Gb file size limit any more. Michael Hand Polaroid Corp -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:38 PM To: Multiple recipients

RE: 1 Table and its Indexes occupying 30% space of the Database.

2002-05-13 Thread Miller, Jay
With the size of your table you might want to consider changing it into a fake partitioned table (assuming there is a key that it would make sense to partition on) for better performance. While 7.3 doesn't support real partitioning, you can create seperate tables (each in their own tablespace)