tablespace issue

[IUpuppy]

Hi,

I have a Waters 2695 instrument and am still using Empower 2 software.

I have been getting the error message saying 'available tablespace (9.312500 MB) below minimum level to continue processing, Processing Aborted' in the message center since last year. As a result I could not review the datas from that project even if I pressed 'Updated'. To make it work, I have to go to project property and manually increase the tablespace.

Recently the same problem happened to other project as well. I wonder if this is a software issue or a computer issue (not very familiar with IT)....

has anyone experienced the same problem as me before? Any suggestions will be much appreciated!

Thank you!

[Csaba]

Hi, it is part of the Empower system administrator job to increase the tablespace regularly.

[DR]

This is normal.

Most admins periodically lock down and archive projects, eventually removing the locked projects to keep things down to a manageable size. If needed, older projects can always be restored and worked with. Table space refers to the amount of Oracle database space occupied by records for a given project. Data file storage is another issue you will eventually run into as well - especially if people tend to use default settings, long run times and high scan rates for QDa and PDA detectors.

[IUpuppy]

Hi Csaba and DR,

Thanks very much for the suggestions! Guess I will just have to increase the tablespace then.

Have a nice day!

[lmh]

The point of it is to encourage users to back up/clear out their projects regularly, or start new projects, rather than just end up with the entire disk occupied by one mega-project with data going back years. We had some systems ages ago which were poorly administered, and users were simply increasing table-space ad infinitum, with the consequence that finally someone helpfully deleted most of Microsoft Office and all of the Waters help-files because the disk was full.