Re: Limits
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texte = John--Thanks. I was actually speaking in jest about using 2 Gigs in a field. It's possible that one day the entire db might approach that, but not anytime soon. (In one of my previous messages in the thread, I mentioned that I knew about the 1MB limit on pages, so I know that we can't _serve_ vast amounts of data.)What we were concerned about was if there would be an upper limit on the length of a whole record in the db, since it would be easily possible for one of the fields (a filtering field, not for display) to end up containing several thousand characters or more. Since we already had some long text in other fields, we were speculating on the possibility of running up against some arbitrary limit.I've got a system that works well right now, but there have been some additional requests for it that weren't part of the original spec, and right now I'm looking at scaling issues. It is entirely possible that we'll be changing some of the structure depending on predicted growth, efficient searching, etc.-Maurice At 9:58 AM 7/25/00, John Peacock wrote: >Of course, you understand that you cannot expect to use that much data >in a field. You will not want to serve more than ~1MB to a browser at >any one time, if only because of the time it would take to transmit it. >If you are talking about this much data, I would suggest you need to >revisit your schema (table structures) and look for ways to simplify it. > >For example, if one field is used to accumulate data (say a log of some >sort), split that field into it's own table. > >John Peacock > -- Maurice Rickard http://GreenMarketplace.com/ Natural products for you and your planet.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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John--Thanks. I was actually speaking in jest about using 2 Gigs in a field. It's possible that one day the entire db might approach that, but not anytime soon. (In one of my previous messages in the thread, I mentioned that I knew about the 1MB limit on pages, so I know that we can't _serve_ vast amounts of data.)What we were concerned about was if there would be an upper limit on the length of a whole record in the db, since it would be easily possible for one of the fields (a filtering field, not for display) to end up containing several thousand characters or more. Since we already had some long text in other fields, we were speculating on the possibility of running up against some arbitrary limit.I've got a system that works well right now, but there have been some additional requests for it that weren't part of the original spec, and right now I'm looking at scaling issues. It is entirely possible that we'll be changing some of the structure depending on predicted growth, efficient searching, etc.-Maurice At 9:58 AM 7/25/00, John Peacock wrote: >Of course, you understand that you cannot expect to use that much data >in a field. You will not want to serve more than ~1MB to a browser at >any one time, if only because of the time it would take to transmit it. >If you are talking about this much data, I would suggest you need to >revisit your schema (table structures) and look for ways to simplify it. > >For example, if one field is used to accumulate data (say a log of some >sort), split that field into it's own table. > >John Peacock > -- Maurice Rickard http://GreenMarketplace.com/ Natural products for you and your planet.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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