At 2002-06-14T05:40:24Z, "Brandon D. Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
writes:

> Space permitting?  Most natural language plain text files compress very
> well.  A file full of database queries is going to have lots of easy to
> predict repetitive query statements and lots of natural language within
> the database entries itself.  It should compress better than 2:1.

n + n/2 can be something to contend with when n is on the order of 30GB and
you're using commodity hardware.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/

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