Morning Dimitry, On 13/09/13 11:12, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 13.09.2013 12:08, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> Are you aware that the character data in a row is compressed? > > It is compressed in database, but not in external tables.
Sigh! Thanks very much, I reread the original posting and realised I had completely missed "by writing our own external table files". Thanks. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
