Re: Database field limit?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = >On 4/3/1998 7:24 PM, PCS Technical Support so noted...>>>>Is there a limit (in either character count or memory used) to the amount>>>of information which can be used in a single database field? I have a>>>case where a lookup returns a sometimes sizable chunk of HTML from a>>>database and there's been problems with the webserver crashing>>>immediately after (I'm using the plug-in, more than enough memory>>>assigned for the database in question).>>>>How sizeable are we talking here? I've seen 300K go out from WebCatalog on>>a single HTML page before. There are no built-in limits to the database,>>so I can only imagine that perhaps W* is freaking at the huge amount of>>data.>>The database itself is 25 meg, but the individual records that are being>looked up and added to the page are only about 4 - 6K each. We're running>WebTen and see odd things in the Access Log after the crash (ie: five or>so lines of the database being searched appear verbatim in the log!) The>problem may be tied into what the page is trying to do. Essentially, if a>certain condition is met, the bulk of the page is hidden and a different>page shown instead (via an Include). Right now I'm working on a different>way of handling the page : )If you're doing comparisions you must probably wrap both the search termand the field you're searching in [URL] contexts, because else, if any ofthe two contains !><^ or something else WebCat uses for comparions, thesearch will stop at that character. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Art director S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Ljusa Ideer AB Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se
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>On 4/3/1998 7:24 PM, PCS Technical Support so noted...>>>>Is there a limit (in either character count or memory used) to the amount>>>of information which can be used in a single database field? I have a>>>case where a lookup returns a sometimes sizable chunk of HTML from a>>>database and there's been problems with the webserver crashing>>>immediately after (I'm using the plug-in, more than enough memory>>>assigned for the database in question).>>>>How sizeable are we talking here? I've seen 300K go out from WebCatalog on>>a single HTML page before. There are no built-in limits to the database,>>so I can only imagine that perhaps W* is freaking at the huge amount of>>data.>>The database itself is 25 meg, but the individual records that are being>looked up and added to the page are only about 4 - 6K each. We're running>WebTen and see odd things in the Access Log after the crash (ie: five or>so lines of the database being searched appear verbatim in the log!) The>problem may be tied into what the page is trying to do. Essentially, if a>certain condition is met, the bulk of the page is hidden and a different>page shown instead (via an Include). Right now I'm working on a different>way of handling the page : )If you're doing comparisions you must probably wrap both the search termand the field you're searching in
[url] contexts, because else, if any ofthe two contains !><^ or something else WebCat uses for comparions, thesearch will stop at that character. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Art director S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Ljusa Ideer AB Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se
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