Purpose

The purpose of this content is to introduce the following concepts:
  • How to monitor the space usage of extends and ensure enough space for the new data in your database.
  • How to add more extends to your database to support growth.
  • Why and how to move extends to a new location.

Audience

This book is intended for OpenEdge database administrators and application developers.

Organization

  • Monitoring extents

    As your database runs and update operations occur, new data is continually added to the database. You should proactively monitor the space usage of extents and take steps to ensure that your database has enough space for new data.

  • Adding extents

    After monitoring the space usage of extents, you may have to add more extents to your database to support its growth.

  • Moving extents

    Provides details about the reasons for moving extends.

Documentation conventions

See Documentation Conventions for an explanation of the terminology, format, and typographical conventions used throughout the OpenEdge content library.