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

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:06:18 +0100
Message-ID: <cng0fi$sjo$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Ed Stevens wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2004 17:37:40 -0800, wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Noons) wrote:
>
>

>>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!

>
>
> Of course, now you have to buy the supplementary zero kit. It's
> included in the Enterprise Edition license, but is an extra cost item
> for Standard Edition licensees.
>
> And Patch #73.b is required to fix the routine that merges the zeros
> back in to the installed binaries.

Unless you have this special release, that has the 1's flipped on the side, and stuck throught the 0's; same amount of compression, but all the data - just ask Metalink about 10gs.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Thu Nov 18 2004 - 11:06:18 CST