Bill,

> I'm unsure what you mean by normal cleanup operations. If you mean
> backup/restore or garbage collection, well, the database
> never receives
> that. It's adding/deleting records 24/7.

You *never* perform a database backup?

During normal database access (SELECT/INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE) as well as
during normal backups, the system detects when pages contain old
information and notifies the engine that the page needs to be cleaned.
Accordingly, the system will then cleanup the deleted records.


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Sean Leyne

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