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Re: Why the size of Oracle 10g database is much smaller than Oracle 9i?

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 16 Nov 2004 17:37:40 -0800
Message-ID: <73e20c6c.0411161737.13d9e2ca@posting.google.com>


Brian Dick <bdick_at_cox.net> wrote in message news:<kph48bk7nolx$.1dyli46ofitkf.dlg_at_40tude.net>...
> They only put the 1's on the disk and left off the 0's. Also, even though
> 0's were nothing, they were wider than the 1's and therefore took up more
> space.

Now, THAT is compression! Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 19:37:40 CST

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