How Much Memory Does an Empty Field Use?
I need to cut some fat out of one of my apps. There is a table that has thousands of blank fields. I just looked at the data from a little over 10,000 records. For example, I have a chunk of this ...
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Qrew LegendSomewhere in a place that I can put my hands on there is a knowledge base article that describes the actual amount of space I feel useless. But much easier way to do this is to go to one of your empty fields and click on the usage tab in the field properties and there is a button to show how much space it's using.
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Thank you. That gave me a little guidance, but didn't get to the heart of the matter. The usage info only says less than 1 MB. Can you point me to the right place to search?
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Paul Peterson
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Paul Peterson
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- MarkShnier__YouI can't locate that page now, but if you want an answer to how exactly much space a blank fields takes up, and you have a lot of data, just take note of your table size, then add a blank text field and then see how much it grew.
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