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Oracle 8i - the space wasting pig

From: Andreas Jung <ajung_at_sz-sb.de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:44:50 +0200
Message-Id: <10513.107136@fatcity.com> 





Dear all,



I am running a Oracle 8i database with UTF8 character set.  I store text files
inside a CLOB (extra lob segment). I can see that Oracle always needs two times
the space to store the text inside the LOB segement compared to the size of the
originial file. Is this a general problem or is this problem related to the
UTF8 character set ?! It seems to me that Oracle need 2 bytes for every
character although most of the text is pure Ascii.



Andreas
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 12:44:50 CDT












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