09-19-2019
Hi,
The compression efficiency really depends on what is being compressed, in general high compression ratios of 90% plus seem to be available on large text files. But most compression utilities tend to give only a few percent when compressing binaries or populated database tables.
I dont think I've seen the 99.9% that you've achieved here, but I have seen 90% regularly on text files and I'm sure that on one occasion a few years ago an Oracle Database that I was migrating reduced by a huge amount just can't rmember by how much.
From the example above, I'm not sure how you compressed the file, are you sure that everything is there?
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Gull04
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