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niranjankumark
Posting Yak Master

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Posted - 2008-02-19 : 04:53:21
Table Day 1
rows dataspace
VITY_TBL 2519882 977776
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VITY_TBL Day 2
rows dataspace
2519651 985664
=========================================================

EOD i take rows and data space of the table.my question is
based on the table , u can see number of rows decreased on day 2
but dataspace increased . how it is happening ..
normally if rows decreasing mean dataspace also shud reduced.

harsh_athalye
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5581 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-19 : 04:56:18
Not always necessary. It may be the case that some columns which earlier contained NULLs were assigned some values, if there is BLOB column, it might have got updated with bigger size binary data etc.

Harsh Athalye
India.
"The IMPOSSIBLE is often UNTRIED"
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niranjankumark
Posting Yak Master

164 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-19 : 05:04:20
what is BLOB Column ??
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harsh_athalye
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5581 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-19 : 05:09:52
A column which can contain binary data such as image, music, movies, documents etc.

Harsh Athalye
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