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Re:Compressing Export Dumps/WinZip

From: James Damiano <jadam_at_nhes.state.nh.us>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:13:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00462661.20020516081330@fatcity.com>


Patrice,

Yes, that's right. On our Tru64 Unix platforms, I was amazed to find that even though I knew the export dump files to be binary files and (what I assumed to be) not only Oracle-extent-compressed, but binary-data-compressed.......that in using gzip/gunzip we were achieving compression percentages of up to 50% and even more.

Jim Damiano

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I don't know whether this is a tangent, but I notice that on the windows platform, "compressed" exports can still get 85% compression when zipping them with WinZip.

Obviously Oracle "compressed=y" doesn't mean "compress the export file", it just means that it places all the segments contiguously in the export file.

Right?

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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