Re: Text compression in a column

From: Frank <franjoe_at_frisurf.no>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:11:57 +0200
Message-ID: <DaTe7.511$1b2.4496@news1.oke.nextra.no>

Hi!

Wild idea; look in the market for a cartridge that does it? or make a cartridge that does it.

Frank

Brian Tkatch <SPAMBLOCK.Maxwell_Smart_at_ThePentagon.com.SPAMBLOCK> wrote in message news:3b7a9fec.506868406_at_news.alt.net...
> We have a clob and a blob column field must be availible for
> retrieval. We're thinking of compressing these fields to save space.
> One easy way to do it, is to have a perl script compress the data
> before inserting it. I was wondering, however, if there was a more
> notive mthod for compression in Oracle.
>
> Brian
Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 12:11:57 CDT