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Application Management
Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
Procedure for optimizing and troubleshooting databases
Controlling database size
Databases whose size is monitored and minimized show increased performance: database operations require less I/O and fewer CPU resources; view rebuilding and updating is quicker; and memory and disk space allocation is improved. The maximum database size is 64GB on Windows™ and UNIX™. Use the following methods to regularly monitor the size of databases and minimize database size:
Monitoring database size

IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Application Design
  Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Application Management
  Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
  - Security in an application
    Domino® offers a multi-layered approach to security. Server administrators can secure databases, servers, and domains. Database designers and managers control the following:
  - Completing an application and managing design changes
    As you prepare to deploy an application, consider these finishing touches:
  - Deploying an application
    The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and DominoTMsystem administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino® system administration.
  - Procedure for optimizing and troubleshooting databases
    - Properties that improve database performance
      Properly setting database properties can improve the performance of an active database. Setting database performance properties on many databases or on one, large, active database can also improve server performance. In addition, some of these property settings also help reduce the size of databases.
    - To set database properties that optimize database performance
    - Controlling database size
      Databases whose size is monitored and minimized show increased performance: database operations require less I/O and fewer CPU resources; view rebuilding and updating is quicker; and memory and disk space allocation is improved. The maximum database size is 64GB on Windows™ and UNIX™. Use the following methods to regularly monitor the size of databases and minimize database size:
      - Monitoring database size
      - Compacting databases
        When documents and attachments are deleted from a database, Domino® tries to reuse the unused space, rather than immediately reduce the file size. Sometimes Domino won't be able to reuse the space or, because of fragmentation, can't reuse the space effectively until you compact the database.
    - Document archiving tool
    - Monitoring replication of a database
      If there are replicas of a database, use any of these methods to monitor replication daily.
    - Monitoring database activity
      Monitor database activity regularly. If database activity is high and users report performance problems, do any of the following:
    - Notifying users of a moved database
      After you move a database, create a new database with the same file name and path as the database before you moved it. In the new database, create a form and document that provides the following information:
    - Troubleshooting database performance
      You can reduce database performance problems by using:
    - Troubleshooting replication problems
      The following topics suggest solutions to common problems associated with scheduled replications.
- Domino® Query Language
  Domino Query Language (DQL) is a facility running in Domino core allowing for a terse shorthand syntax for finding documents according to a wide variety of complexity of terms. It leverages existing design elements without the need to write detailed code to access them.
- Composite Applications - Design and Management
  Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. The ability to create and edit composite applications lets you easily integrate different types of components and technologies.
- DB2® Access views
  Domino® Designer includes two types of design elements to assist you in managing data contained in DB2® enabled Notes® databases:
- Programming Overview and User Interface
  This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
- Formula Language
  This section documents the formula language.
- LotusScript® Language
  Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.
- LotusScript/COM/OLE Classes
- Java/CORBA Classes
  This section documents the Java/CORBA classes.
- Lotus® Connectors
  Lotus® Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
- Javadoc™ for Domino® Designer related APIs
  As part of providing additional Java™ reference documentation, Domino® Designer ships with a help plugin that contains Javadoc™ for additional Domino Designer related APIs.

Monitoring database size

About this task

Use the following method to monitor database size and used space in a database.

Procedure

Open the database and choose File - Application - Properties.
Click the Info tab (i) to see the size of the database.
Click % Used to display the percentage of database space in use.

Results

For information on other methods of monitoring database size, such as the Statistics Collector task, as well as Log Analysis and Event Monitors, see Domino® Administrator Help.