--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Dalton Calford wrote:

> The data records are extreamly normalized, and small, the record
> size being only 186 bytes.
> Each record fully encapsulates a phone conversation.
>
> Unfortunately, depending on the time of year, we can achieve 40 GB
> of data, with only 90 days of information in hot storage.
> This is all within a single billing period, for a single province
> (we span a few).

This means an average of well over 2 million phone calls every day
within one province. I never suspected that many people were using
Firebird...

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