I don’t know how common is this problem, but it is good to know from time to time about which tables how many disk space needed at a certain time. For example, you can catch an amok running software part which writes your database full. Or, – as you will see so – you can catch up some code what doesn’t work as excepted.
So, let’s start at the beginning. You wanna to know how big are your tables, and you need to know how many data gets there day-by-day (or minute-by-minute. or whatever).
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