From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:4556a115{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
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>> Don't compact then. It's really got piss all to do with anything but disk
>> space which should be cheap enough unless you run terabyte size
> databases...
>
> Actually no, it makes a huge speed difference along with the space
> difference.

On modern systems it should not make a difference in speed, so I'm quessing
you're referring to you AIX system. It's old, technologically speaking, so
I can easily believe it requires trickery like that.


Antti Kurenniemi

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