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If your business environment allows regular downtime for performing routine database maintenance tasks, you can add extents offline.

As a best practice, if the variable extent of a storage area is empty, you should remove it. Then, you add new fixed extents and a variable extent.

If the variable extent already contains data, you cannot remove it. However, when you add fixed extents and a variable extent, OpenEdge RDBMS caps off the variable extent and turns it into a fixed extent. It then adds the new fixed extents and a variable extent to the area.