"Igor Sereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a database that can possibly grow into millions of rows. Some = > tables have TEXT fields, which may store texts of signigicant length. = > All other data is mostly numeric values. > > We have a thought of moving all large texts into a separate table, and = > replacing text_column with text_id in the rest of the schema. The = > assumption is that db pages are allocated fully to a single table, so = > the numerical part of the database will end up in a few db pages and so = > we'll be able to quickly run queries over them. (We won't have queries = > for texts, only look-ups by text_id.) > > Is our assumption correct? Is that a pattern someone here has = > implemented maybe? How does the size of the whole database affect = > queries to a single table? >
This is a good assumption. Keeping large CLOBs and BLOBs in a separate table and referencing them by rowid is what I do. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
