From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
> > >>> I don't know anything which can't be done in a megabyte of mem.
> > >> How about a database record sort on a field with a data length greater
> > >> than 1MB?
> > HF> read the fields to compare in chunks of max say 64K (well in reality i'd
> > HF> use the block/cluster size of the drive) and compare it.
> > Read from where? What drive? You assume too much.
> I'd tend to guess that the 1MB fields probably come from the storage
> device holding the database... [...] In either of those
> cases, you don't even need to write a sorting program since the tables
> are already sorted.
Thank you Brian, I couln'd have said it in a niceer manner.
;)
Gruss
H.
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