At 12:53 PM 10/23/2002 +1000, Alan McDonald wrote:

>what gbaking the file without garbage collection, then analysing the
>strings?

First, gbak won't look at a table that's been dropped -
it's a logical backup and reads the data the same way
another program would. Second, the engine will reallocate
the pages that were released when the table was dropped
if it needs to create a new transaction page for gbak.

Regards,

Ann