Re: LOB Compression

Kevin Crosbie wrote:
> In fact, on a large text document of say 3Mb, I found that UTL Compress
> would compress it to roughly half the size, whilst I would get a ratio
> of around 8:1 with the Java Deflater class.

Okay, I embellished a little, it's roughly 4:1 for the Java Deflater. ;) But the UTL_COMPRESS could go as bad as 1.7:1 for a 4Mb piece of text. Received on Tue Jul 04 2006 - 03:52:48 CDT