13 Feb
2003
13 Feb
'03
6:08 p.m.
From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla(a)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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