Whitlock, Brett wrote:
> Greetings list!
>
> I have a dba who is recommending I do a regularly scheduled database
> reorg (ie weekly).  Anyone doing this?  Can you share the good,  the
> bad, and the ugly about doing this?

Ok, db reorg is absolutely useless. Just don't, it's not worth the effort,
it'll take you off-line for days and there is absolutely no reason to do it.
Now, if you feel you db is getting to slow you might think of:

1- adding more faster disks, 15k RPM 36 GB disks are great for a busy TSM server
2- eliminating all but one 'smart' part, no raid controllers + lvm + tsm, just
the bare disk and TSM mirroring
3- make sure you have you TSM log volumes on separate disks, also faster is
better, but 10kRPM will probably do
4- add more memory; databases, including TSM, love more memory

Now, having said that... on a fairly tuned TSM server our unload/load took
about 24 hours, we started out with 220 GB (48% full) and ended with less that
60% used on 96 GB. Of course the database grew a bit in the month after...
(and yes, I actually had a good excuse for the reorg and will recommend
against it... and do it again in a few months time)

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