Ours reduced by about 1gig. I am sure it is something to do with the more
efficient storage of binary files in (Binary Datatypes) Instead of
longtext/longblob.
I noticed also the backup takes less time to run.. All is well and we have
no problems so I feel there is no cause for concern.
On We
I installed RT 3.8.7 on a test server and loaded the database with a dump
from my production instance of RT (version 3.6.7). I then went through
the listed procedures to update the database for 3.8.7. A dump of the
resulting database is about 9.5 megabytes whereas the old database dump is
ab