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Qrew Assistant Captain

5 years ago

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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PaulPeterson1

Qrew Assistant Captain

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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MarkShnier__You

Qrew Legend

5 years ago

I 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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