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Enlarging your Sybase database

In this tip, Dr. Talebzadeh gives helpful examples of removing unwanted transactions and code for boosting your master database capacity.

Mich Talebzadeh
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Published: 29 Aug 2006

If you're running out of space, you can remove records from the syslog table or you can add space from the master device, says Dr. Mich Talebzadeh, SearchOpenSource.com's Sybase expert. In this tip, Dr. Talebzadeh gives helpful examples of removing unwanted transactions and offers code for boosting your master database capacity.

Removing unwanted transactions

When it is created, the master database has a mixed data and log on the master device. The transaction log is the syslogs table you are referring to, as shown in the example below:

  • sp_helpdb master
  • go

    • name db_size owner dbid created status
    master 100.0 MB sa 1 Jan 15, 2006 mixed log and data

    (1 row affected)

    device_fragments size usage created free kbytes
    master 52.0 MB data and log Jan 15 2006 1:53AM 36912
    master 48.0 MB data and log Jan 15 2006 1:53AM 48960

Syslogs is not a normal table. To get rid of an unwanted transaction in the master database, you can do the following:

dump transaction master with truncate_only
go

Increasing master device space

Alternately, you can increase the size of the master database on master device if you have free space in master device:

  1. sp_helpdevice master
  2. go
device_name physical_name                     
description

    3. master 
 /data2/lon_gen_sql_tst4/master.dat special
 dsync on
 directio off
 default disk
 physical disk
 256.00 MB
 Free: 120.00 MB

So, in the above example, I have 120MB free on the master device. If I want to expand the master database on the master device by 10MB, I can simply do the following:

  1. alter database master on master = 10
  2. go
    Extending database by 1280 pages (10.0 megabytes) on disk master
    3.

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