Hi Bret,
The issue was as you mentioned. The text/image allocations were the main user of the space. However, I did set the "dealloc first text page" attribute and then updated NULL columns to NULL again to get the space to deallocate. However, it didn't seem to make any difference. I think thats because there were no NULL values in the LOGTEXT column. Running your query, I could see that there were entries in LOGTEXT with small values (8123 rows with a length of 3 for example). I couldn't find the "in row(size)" feature in the documentation for ASE 15.7 ESD1.
I checked with SAP on whether we could truncate the table without it affecting the application and they confirmed it was possible. That resolved the issue. We also turned down the logging on SMP so now the table fills in slower. But I believe that your suggestions are better long term solutions.
Thanks to Mark and Jeff for your assistence as well. I learned a lot.
Regards,
Roy
