I work for a large corporation, obviously, we have millions upon, millions of customers.

As a result, we have millions of millions of database entries.

One of the services our company offers is Voice Mail, this of course requires a database(s). I just happen to manage one of those databases. As a part of my duties, I run what we call, and "Uninitialized Report". This report consists of a truckload of customers that have never bothered to use this wonderful service, for various reasons. From this report, I make the decision to keep, or delete the entry.

I propose that something similar be done with the PM database.

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, please, tell me if it has.

Why not, write a script that query's the databases user table's, and if the creation date/last here date match, drop the user.

This would clear up some space, quite a bit, I would think.

Any ideas/opinions/thoughts??

In reply to Database Clean up? by defyance

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