Does anyone know what would cause a view index to show a negative size. For example, -2,098,382,096
Subject: RE: Negative View Index Size
Yes – it has exceeded the boundaries of the data type used for the index size number. In general terms, the first bit of a binary number is a “sign” flag that is 0 for positive numbers and 1 for negatives. If a positive number gets big enough, it will need to use the first bit, and that’s a signal to the system that the number is negative. (This is much more likely in a lower-level language like C – anythng that runs “sandboxed” will usually throw an overflow error if you try to increment a number beyond the capacity of the data type.)