At 10:48 AM 2/23/2006, Dave Zarnoch wrote:

I calculated that our DB is @61GB
The manufacturer says the tape can hold 50GB compressed

What do you think is happening?

Keep in mind that many databases have lots of zeroes in them (unused
space within pages).  In this situation, they can be compressed quite well.



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