On 1 Sep 2012, at 11:34pm, "Ted Rolle, Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in the olden days we predicted a database's storage to be about 5 > times the size of the data. > By 'olden' I mean IBM's IMS, VSAM, DB2. ..., 70s, 80s. Back in the old days you had 72 or 80 columns to a punched card, and any columns you didn't use were wasted. You could double your database capacity/speed/cost by saving one bit per record. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
