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A. Khattri ajai
Thu Feb 9 09:55:31 PST 2006


On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:

> Now that we have HUGE disk drives, would it not be as feasible to simply
> use short unsigned int in an array configuration to do the same?

Sure, its a waste of bits but you can whatever you want. Bear in mind that
those extra bits could add up when you have a large database.

(Ill leave my "let's throw money at the problem" rant for another day ;-)


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