Space Explorer

The Space Explorer graphical utility is used to create, modify, delete, and manage the dbspaces and chunks that comprise the database. It has the capability of adding or dropping dbspaces, creating mirrored dbspaces, and adding or deleting storage to existing dbspaces. One of the things that it does not do is create temporary dbspaces. You can create a dbspace to be used for temporary space in this GUI, but it will not be a proper, nonlogging tempspace. To create it properly, you need to create the space using the onspaces utility. You can then add chunks to it through the GUI.

When you first enter the utility, you can choose your ...

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