Creating a New Main Database

This procedure creates a new empty database the same size as your original database. Eventually this will become your working database.

  1. Under the File menu pick New Data File

  2. Save a data file called 'newfile.df1' in a new directory

    3. Click Here to learn how to create a new folder

  3. Click on the new file that you created in the top window

  4. Under the Utilities menu select Data File Tools >> Examine Data File

  5. Make sure the window title that popped up says 'data file -' and your new file name

  6. Step 3 will add a Data File menu to the main menu bar. From that menu select Change Data File Size

  7. Change the first segment size to 128000. If the window closes, open it again using step 5

  8. Click Add Segment

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  9. Select the directory in which to create the new segment

  10. Click OK

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  11. Make the second segment 524288 (or whatever the largest number it will allow you to put in)

    12. Note The first segment has the ability to auto-expand as it needs to. All other segments cannot and are set to the maximum size using this step.

  12. Repeat steps 8-11 as many times as you need to so that you have the same number of segments as the original data file

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  13. Click the OK Button

    14. This will extend the data file's segments.

    Click Here for the procedure to reconstruct the main database.