Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Gussimulator
rs@sqlite.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs? What platform are you using? If you are using NTFS filesystem you can just mark the file for compression and the OS takes care of it transparently. -- View this message in context: http://www.

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Christian Smith
Gussimulator uttered: I've been using SQLite for a very short period of time and so far Its doing a great job for my application (single user, quite a big amount of data though). Now, since theres a lot of repetitive data, I thought that compressing the database would be a good idea, since,

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Christian Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Mikey C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not sure what you mean there DRH, but I set compression on one of my database files on NTFS and file size shrunk from 1,289,216 bytes to 696,320 bytes. And of course the whole compression / decompression process is completely

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Sprenkle
On 7/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm guessing that the random I/O behavior of SQLite will frustrate the compression implemented by NTFS and Reiser. The end result will be a database file that might actually take up more space than if it were uncompressed. I'd be

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread John Stanton
g> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs? At 6:04 PM -0300 7/5/06, Gussimulator wrote: Now, since theres a lot of repetitive data, I thought that compressing the database would be a good idea, since, we all know.. One of the first principles of dat

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Mikey C
Not sure what you mean there DRH, but I set compression on one of my database files on NTFS and file size shrunk from 1,289,216 bytes to 696,320 bytes. And of course the whole compression / decompression process is completely transparent to SQLite and if you decide that compression is a bad

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread drh
"Jay Sprenkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/5/06, Mikey C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What platform are you using? > > > > If you are using NTFS filesystem you can just mark the file for compression > > and the OS takes care of it transparently. > > The linux OS supports Reiser file

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Sprenkle
On 7/5/06, Mikey C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What platform are you using? If you are using NTFS filesystem you can just mark the file for compression and the OS takes care of it transparently. The linux OS supports Reiser file systems. This will compress on the fly with the compression

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-06 Thread Eduardo
At 07:07 06/07/2006, you wrote: Hello there, This is what I mean by repetitive data: Tables: E:\DirectX90c\ E:\DirectX90c\Feb2006_MDX1_x86_Archive.cab\ E:\DirectX90c\Feb2006_d3dx9_29_x64.cab\ E:\DirectX90c\Feb2006_xact_x64.cab\ E:\DirectX90c\Feb2006_MDX1_x86.cab\

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-05 Thread Bill KING
take the right 'path' here... > Thanks. > > > > > > > - Original Message - From: "Darren Duncan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <sqlite-users@sqlite.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:04 AM > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Compressing the D

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-05 Thread Gussimulator
gt; Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs? At 6:04 PM -0300 7/5/06, Gussimulator wrote: Now, since theres a lot of repetitive data, I thought that compressing the database would be a good idea, since, we all know.. One of the first principles of data com

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-05 Thread Darren Duncan
At 6:04 PM -0300 7/5/06, Gussimulator wrote: Now, since theres a lot of repetitive data, I thought that compressing the database would be a good idea, since, we all know.. One of the first principles of data compression is getting rid of repetitive data, so... I was wondering if this is

Re: [sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-05 Thread Mikey C
What platform are you using? If you are using NTFS filesystem you can just mark the file for compression and the OS takes care of it transparently. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Compressing-the-DBs--tf1897195.html#a5190175 Sent from the SQLite forum at Nabble.com.

[sqlite] Compressing the DBs?

2006-07-05 Thread Gussimulator
I've been using SQLite for a very short period of time and so far Its doing a great job for my application (single user, quite a big amount of data though). Now, since theres a lot of repetitive data, I thought that compressing the database would be a good idea, since, we all know.. One of the