3348501 - What causes the table size to decrease slightly (disk), even though the number of records in the table only increases in SAP HANA?

• You experience slight decrease of table size on disk level, even if the number of records only increase in the table and there were no deletion from the table.
• You observe this slight decrease only temporary and the size of the table mainly increase during the time.
• The size of the decrease is not significant compare to the table size.

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