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  3. March 2002

RE: QADBIFLD

> Our QADBIFLD in QSYS is currently 188,890 good records
> 22,407 deleted records record length 4,876
> meaning 110 meg bytes wasted by deleted records
> and 1 gig bytes total size of the file
> Am I estimating that math right?

NO; the larger fields are VARCHAR, so your calculation is not accurate.
The allocated size is 227 (extracted from DSPFFD), so your waiste is only
of 5 Meg !
Check the real size of the object (DSPOBJD), it's not 1 Gig.
BTW, with 12% of deleted records, you are in a very good situation.


Richard THEIS
  AS/400 Education, France
  theis_richard@fr.ibm.com

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