in reply to Re^4: Algorithm advice sought for seaching through GB's of text (email) files
in thread Algorithm advice sought for seaching through GB's of text (email) files

I drew that conclusion from this:

If you take 2 GB of data from unstructured files and store it into a structured form in a database, it will require double, treble, or even quadruple the storage capacity of the original flatfiles depending upon how much of the original data you decide to structure. More if you fully index it.

Maybe you meant something else, but that's what it sounded like.

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