Patrice, Yes, that's right. On our Tru64 Unix platforms, I was amazed to find that even though I knew the export dump files to be binary files and (what I assumed to be) not only Oracle-extent-compressed, but binary-data-compressed.......that in using gzip/gunzip we were achieving compression percentages of up to 50% and even more.
Jim Damiano -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't know whether this is a tangent, but I notice that on the windows platform, "compressed" exports can still get 85% compression when zipping them with WinZip. Obviously Oracle "compressed=y" doesn't mean "compress the export file", it just means that it places all the segments contiguously in the export file. Right? Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: James Damiano INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
