At 02:44 AM 10/4/2004, Dmitry Kuzmenko wrote:

>As I understand current behavior, blobs less than 256 bytes are
>stored at the same data page, in record.

That's not correct. Any blob that will fit on a data page is
stored on a data page, preferably the page with the record,
assuming it has space. There's no hard coded limit.


Storing small blobs on page with the record reduces I/O if the
blob data is referenced -- and small blobs are more likely to be
referenced than large blobs.

> If blob is bigger it
>is stored at blob page, not data page.

As Pavel explained, there are three levels of blob storage and
each of them stores something on page.

>There are some systems that store blobs with different size,
>so blob data is spreaded between data and blob pages.
>This makes table more "fragmented" and seriously slowdown
>record retrieval if 'select' does not selects blob fields.

Do you have any evidence of that? Other than a hypothesis
based on a (questionable) understanding of the implementation?
It's been some years, but when last I compared our blob
performance with other systems, it was pretty good.

>The suggestion is - to add some header page flag that
>will disable blob storing at data page.

Let's be sure we have a problem before rushing to solutions.



Regards,

Ann
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