Our Resource Analyzer Database has grown out of control so I wanted to ping the FocalPoint guru's on best practices for RA.
Is there a utility to limit a certain amount of data kept in Resource Analyzer? (for example only keep 3 months worth of data) I know we could write something in SQL, but I figured IBI had already created a utility for that, and if they haven't does someone have that script already created. I would love to have the SQL statements that the repository maintenance delete data by date range utility runs. When we delete large data sets it runs forever.

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also curious about this. Skyler what are you using for your RA database? FOCUS files? Or a real database?

In Resource Analyzer under utilities there is a repository maintenance selection that will let you delete data.

Thank you for the responses. So I can delete the data using the repository maintenance screen, but it is pretty cumbersome. It takes approximately 30 minutes to delete 2 days worth of data. I think the problem is that the database does not have keys or indexes so every time you run something it is doing a table scan. I am considering adding some keys and indexes to the dev version of the db to see if performance improves.

Our RA database is SQL Server 2008r2.

yes we found it a little slow.

What we eventually decided was that RA would only store current month and we wrote a fex to extract and save the data for reporting. However this means that RG is not as effective. I have heard that Resource analyzer has changed some in 7.7 but haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Our RA is in ORACLE

We found case #62232528 that seems to indicate we can at least add non-unique indexes. We have asked ibi for guidance as to additional indexes and primary keys? and make sure it doesn't invalidate our maintenance contract.