Re: Oracle 8i - the space wasting pig

From: Andreas Jung <ajung_at_sz-sb.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:13:07 +0200
Message-Id: <10514.107363@fatcity.com>

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:40:08AM -0800, Walt Weaver wrote:
> Yes, this is the evil downside of UTF8. There are other charactersets that
> are variable width, i.e., they use 1 byte for the standard characters and 2
> bytes for everything else. There's some pretty good documentation on
> MetaLink about it.
>
> Of course, disk space is cheap nowadays, so why worry about it? :>)

Yes, but not for Sun systems....don't forget the neccessaray raids..

Andreas Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 01:13:07 CDT