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From: robert@blake.acs.washington.edu (Gedankenleere)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMSs that can handle binary data?
Message-ID: <495@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 89 16:43:25 GMT
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Is anybody familiar with the DEC Conver/merge utility?
I have 2 fixed-length record indexed files (about 179,000 disk blocks large, 1 file). I am doing daily convert/merge of fixed record-length seqeuential records
to these indexed files. The first file has a record length of 72, and the
2nd file, 127. My problem is that the first convert/merge only takes 10 minutes,whereas the second one takes 2 hours, even though the number of records in 
the second one is less than the first.
The second indexed files is structured with duplicate keys.
Any ideas?
thanx in advance.

:wq
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:wq!

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