OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

We are familiar with the idea of compressing images to reduce the storage space required and make them faster to display. Here compression is applied to database tables and indexes to improve query ...

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Available as a separately licensed option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, Advanced Compression is a way of writing data to disk so that it takes up less space Available as a separately ...

A CLR UDT has a limit of 8000 bytes - I doubt thats big enough to pack a file into. I guess you could use custom serialization and store the compressed file in a different table using the ...