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RDBPROD: Delete unused space in the (Rdb) default storage area

edited Feb 19, 2015 10:04AM in Rdb on OpenVMS, IBM zSeries and Oracle on OpenVMS (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered

A while back, some rather large indexes were inadvertently created in the default storage area of my production database.  (The default storage area is set up to be a different storage than RDB$SYSTEM).  This caused the default storage area to grow to over 132GB.  When the errant indexes were deleted, the storage area file did not shrink (as expected).  Since the default storage area is usually virtually empty (no non-system tables), most of the space allocated to its file is wasted.  This is causing disk space problems when we copy the database to another system for various development projects --

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