When you create a new database file, you can preallocate database space using the DATABASE SIZE clause of the CREATE DATABASE statement. Preallocating space can improve performance for loading large amounts of data and keeps database files more contiguous.
Prerequisites
You must have the MANAGE ANY DBSPACE system privilege.
Context and remarks
As you use a database, it automatically grows database files as needed. Rapidly-changing database files can lead to excessive file fragmentation on the disk, resulting in potential performance problems. As well, many small allocations are slower than one large allocation. If you are working with a database with a high rate of change, you can preallocate disk space for dbspaces or for transaction logs using either Sybase Central or the ALTER DBSPACE statement.
Running a disk defragmentation utility after preallocating disk space helps ensure that the database file is not fragmented over many disjointed areas of the disk drive. Performance can suffer if there is excessive fragmentation of database files.
TaskConnect to a database.
Execute an ALTER DBSPACE statement.
Example
Increase the size of the system dbspace by 200 pages.
ALTER DBSPACE system ADD 200; |
Increase the size of the system dbspace by 400 megabytes.
ALTER DBSPACE system ADD 400 MB; |
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