Hi

I have been having database performance issues possibly related to
unexpired objects in the database. The problem manifests itself with all
the client sessions during the backup window grinding to a halt. There
are 7 pages of locks on the database and nothing is moving. After
running expiration, which expired 60% of the objects that is analysed,
the problems goes away.

Can anyone tell me how to work out the actual number of objects in the
database? Also, once the expiration process complete- I ran it again,
immediately and it found another few hundred thousand objects to expire-
why?

Has anyone else seen this type of problem? If so is there a statement
that can be written to analyse the number of unexpired objects that
currently reside in the database? As light weight as possible, as a
heavy weight global lock enforced by a big statement probably wont
complete when the system is under this massive load!

Thanks

Ian

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Ian Smith
SAN/TSM Specialist




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