In article <9ub7o3$2es$1_at_nreadb.inwind.it>, "Mark" <marbz_at_hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone know a good way to compress the content of a long filed of a
> table
> from the server side?
>
> thanks in advance
Well, I haven't given it much thought but I would get one of those freely
available LZW libraries from freshmeat.net and make it into an external
procedure which would compress/uncompress a blob. It might me prudent to
convert long fields into lobs because you can pass a locator to a routine
which is, generally speaking, a few bytes shorter then your average long
field, especially if you feel the need to compress them. The other
solution that would probably prove itself to be better performing one is
to buy more disks. Disks are cheap and adding say 100GB doesn't cost as
much as it used to.
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Mladen Gogala
Received on Sun Dec 02 2001 - 12:21:20 CST
