Thanks for that explanation. It makes a lot more sense now. Back in the day I managed a Jabber + bandersnatch corporate server and it had many years of Jabber

Thanks for that explanation. It makes a lot more sense now. Back in the day I managed a Jabber + bandersnatch corporate server and it had many years of Jabber + AIM + MSN + ICQ + Yahoo chat but the database was tiny which is why I was very surprised to see a chat server take up so much space. Good luck on getting the schema overhead out of the way. I'm sure nowadays you are probably also using faster underlying storage SSD's behind the raid controllers. Dell/HP keep them overpriced of course but I found them to be very much worth it for databases as did the DBA's. I hope your on-call teams get to take a week off after that incident.