Susan Harkins
ssharkins at bellsouth.net
Fri Mar 26 13:57:00 CST 2004
VERY interesting. Have to give them half a point back, because there is a small amount of 'bloat', if you use a query/table for the lookup. But it's negligible, and also, both databases grow when you index the field, just grows a bit more. I would never really call that 'bloat'. Not trying to back track, but to me, bloat is when a database grows in size over time, but when compacted, it gets smaller. The portion that is 'reduced' is bloat. The portion left after the compact is 'overhead'. That's my definition. Admittedly, if you are going to run close to max db size, then lookups should be removed, to get that much more space. But we are talking overhead space, not really 'bloat'. ==============Wait!!!!!!!!!!! Is it true bloat, or just normal increase due to feature use. I mean, if you use it, it's going to cost something somewhere. So don't be so quick to label it -- but if it really bloat, then OK. :) Susan H.