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- From: jparker@hpbs2776.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Deletes - and compression of data files
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 12:38:03 -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?
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- j.
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