Why is my H2 database 7x larger on disk than it should be?

Question

I have an H2 database that has ballooned to several Gigabytes in size, causing all sorts of operational problems. The database size didn\'t seem right. So I took one little slic

Answer 1

There's always indices, etc. to be taken into account.

Can you try:

CALL DISK_SPACE_USED('my_table');

Also, I would also recommend running SHUTDOWN DEFRAG and calculating the size again.