RE: Why vacuum?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Plenty of other databases need to be 'vacuumed'. For instance, if you have
> an ms access database with 5 MB of data in it, and then delete all the data,
> leaving only the forms, etc - you will be left with a 5MB mdb file still!
>
> If you then run 'Compact Database' (which is another word for 'vacuum'), the
> mdb file will be reduced down to 500k...

Ooh... Hope MS Access isn't going to be taken seriously as a benchmark
here :-). The same is also true of MapInfo, by the way, but I'm not
holding that up as a benchmark either ;-).

> Chris

Tim

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