Which BLK, AUX, BND table belongs to which Raster

[DiegoLlamas]

Hello,

I was having a problem with one of my rasters and i deleted several tables from  SQL Server and now I do not see the raster in ArcCatalog or ArcMap after this but the space in the database wasn't released. 

I notice I have two BLK, AUX, RAS and BND tables and I read that the BLK table store the space in the database so I need to delete it but I do not know how I can identify which BLK is for my second Raster and which for the one I already delete. 

How Can I know which BLK, AUX BND, RAS tables belongs to my actual raster?

If I identify this, the other blk file is from the one i delete so I can delete this table.

Does anyone knows how can I identify this?

thanks,

Diego Llamas

[George_Thompson]

Technically all the above are part of the raster. You should be able to track down the references to the correct raster via these tables: Raster datasets and raster catalogs in a geodatabase in SQL Server—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  (I just searched for SQL Server)

Did the client not delete all of the associated files?

[DiegoLlamas]

Hello George,

No it seems that he just delete the reference system tables from the raster in SDE.layers and other tables. He just deleted every row where the name of the raster appear. Now I am not able to identify which blk belong to the one he deleted so I can delete all this files and release the space that raster is taking.

[George_Thompson]

If you have another raster that "works" then you could find all the information for that one and delete the other one. Otherwise it may be very risky to delete other files.

You mention that you only have 2 rasters in the GDB.

[DiegoLlamas]

Yes, Thats what im going to do. I will follow the relation of the tables and delete the other one.

thanks for your help George. 

[NeilAyres]

It sounds like you are going in "via the back door" to delete database content.

Can be pretty dangerous. Why not use the normal ArcCatalog interface to do this sort of maintenance.

[DiegoLlamas]

Hello Neil,

It seems that my raster somehow got corrupted because every time i tried to deleted from ArcCatalog, ArcMap or using SDE Command lines to do so, ArcMap or ArcCatalog Crushed that's way I needed to do from SQL manager.

[DiegoLlamas]

So, this is what I found, did and worked fine.

since I have only one raster present, I looked for the layer_id of my actual raster from SDE_RATSER_Columns table (this raster had id 33) and then find out the BLK,AUX,RAS and BND of the specific layer id and delete the one wasn't number 33

Previously I looked into following system tables to find the entries of the corrupted raster (PR_Photo_2010). 
-SDE_Table_registryTable_registry
-SDE_Geometry_columns
-SDE_Layers
-SDE_Column_registry
-SDE_GDB_items
-SDE_raster_columns

Right click and select Edit top 200 Rows for all these system tables. 

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Select the name of my raster and then right click and delete it.

[George_Thompson]

I have done the manual deletion before in a database, but I had a verified backup and tested the process many times.

It is a very SPECIFIC per database workflow. I would not think that it may be the same in all cases like this.

[DiegoLlamas]

That is correct George, I perform this workflow for a SQL Server 2008 R2 Database.So, this worked for this specific database and version.