Size of MII entities and corresponding records in XMII tables

Hello MII Community,

In this blog I’d like to say few words and share some hints regarding a size of MII entities and corresponding records in XMII tables.

Imagine you face some memory consumption or performance issue. It can happen because the corresponding MII file is huge and as a consequence it takes much time to process it.

In some cases you should dig to the needed record in XMII_FILES table, which has a BLOB column TEXT that can occupy a lot of space. You can judge about its size based on FILESIZE column. However, this column has been introduced since MII 12.2 SP7 and MII 14.0 SP4 only. In older versions you should use some script to evaluate the size. Below is the example from SQL Server database:

select NAME,  datalength(TEXT) as LengthOfBLOBField

from XMII_FILES

where …

The calculated length is provided in Bytes, same as in standard FILESIZE column.

In case you have other DB vendor, an equivalent datalength() function should be used.

In more rare cases you need to check for the same in other XMII tables. Very recently I have had a need to check XMII_JOBPROP table and found a property there, which value (a CLOB column PROPVALUE) occupied more than 1 Gb, and caused an issue.

Correspondingly, the query to check it was:

select JOBID, PROPNAME,  datalength(PROPVALUE) as LengthOfCLOBField

from XMII_JOBPROP

where …

Hope you find these hints useful. Your comments, ratings and Likes would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Alex.