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Old Feb 22nd, 2007, 1:08 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Arevos
What would be the point of doing it this way? Why not just store it in a single TEXT or BLOB field?
My first thought was to reduce redundancy. If the same phrase, tag set, etc appeared numerous times in the set of pages the fellow wants to store, this could add them to the DB if and only if they weren't already there. Otherwise, it would simply record the index, on the (most likely true) assumption that a series of indices takes up less storage than a series of text/HTML lines. However, I've no idea if this was what Mocker had in mind.
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