http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/empty-rows-in-the-sstables Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 07:29:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/empty-rows-in-the-sstables#post-8626 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:57:59 +0000 or.sher1 8626@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>Using sstable2json I found that some of my sstables contains empty rows such as:<br /> "key1": {"SC1": {"deletedAt": -9223372036854775808, "subColumns": []}},<br /> "key2": {},<br /> ...</p> <p>I can't understand when and why a flush operation would generate such an empty rows.<br /> If it supposed to mean that all data for that keys is deleted wouldn't I suppose to see tombstones here??<br /> Can someone give me an example of when this kind of rows can be generated?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Or. </p>