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From: kji@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ken Isacson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Paradox 3.5 - Record size calculation?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.232645.23012@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Jun 91 23:26:45 GMT
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Currently I am working on a rather large Paradox 3.5 application.  What
I need to know now is how do I calculate a record size?

I ran some tests today to try and determine how much a non-keyed table with justone field, a date field, would occupy.  From my test at about 1000 records, the
average record size is 8 bytes per record.  But at about 30,000 records, the 
average record size is about 4.something bytes per record.

My goal is to be able to tell my users how much disk space is going to
be required to able handle the number off accounts they will have on
their database.

Replies here are good, email is even better.

Thanks,
Ken

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