compressed data in database

  • You could upgrade to 2008 which has compression built in.

    The other option that comes to mind is to compress them using, something, pkzip?, and then store them as a binary. That would work, but it will certainly slow down the storage & retrieval of the data.

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  • Ok

    It seems that this is the only solution...

    I need to use it in 2005...so I will try your way

    Thanks

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