Subject: re : purge of old contract _ event _ status fyi - what do you all think ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - forwarded by brenda f herod / hou / ect on 12 / 20 / 99 08 : 19 am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - from : dave nommensen on 12 / 17 / 99 05 : 29 pm to : scotty gilbert / hou / ect @ ect cc : george smith / hou / ect @ ect , edward terry / hou / ect @ ect , katherine l kelly / hou / ect @ ect , bryce baxter / hou / ect @ ect , randall l gay / hou / ect @ ect , brenda f herod / hou / ect @ ect , richard pinion / hou / ect @ ect subject : re : purge of old contract _ event _ status just to clarify , its not the relative age of the production date , but the age of the event itself . d . n . to : george smith , edward terry / hou / ect @ ect , katherine l kelly / hou / ect @ ect , bryce baxter / hou / ect @ ect , randall l gay / hou / ect @ ect , brenda f herod / hou / ect @ ect cc : richard pinion / hou / ect @ ect , dave nommensen / hou / ect @ ect subject : re : purge of old contract _ event _ status do any of you see a problem with limiting this to the current month or current month + 1 need to know soon scotty from : dave nommensen 12 / 17 / 99 03 : 25 pm to : scotty gilbert / hou / ect @ ect , richard pinion / hou / ect @ ect cc : trisha luong / hou / ect @ ect , benedicta tung / hou / ect @ ect , diane e niestrath / hou / ect @ ect , dave mcmullan / hou / ect @ ect subject : purge of old contract _ event _ status scotty / richard , our dbas would like to see what we can do to reduce the qty of rows in contract _ event _ status . we have over 1 gig of data in that table . i would like to suggest we have a nightly or weekly or monthly process to delete any row with a last _ mod _ date over a month ( or two ) old . so if someone balances february 1999 this month , we will keep it around for a month ( or two ) . does any one else have a desire to keep this data for a shorter / longer period of time ? this is not an audit table . this is just a " log " every nom / track / balance / edi send / fax send / sched qty / quick response since the beginning of time . d . n .