It works.
Now the FDB is with 380KB.

I will have to do this usually?

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Marcello Fontolan
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Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

> At 23:05 29/03/2004 -0300, you wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a database (developing) that is now with 11MB but if I compress
> >(Windows XP ZIP) it's down to 400KB.
> > There is any command to compress the database?
> > If it has a lot of insert and delete, a empty space is allocated?
> >
> > Thank you all!
> >
> >--
> >
> >..::
> > Marcello Fontolan
> > marcello@...
> >::..
> >
>
>
> Hi Marcello,
>
> Do a backup/restore. The size of you database should shrink....
>
> Any way the file will be greater than the ziped file... data are store on
> pages and you could have a lot of free space on pages that zip will
> compress...
>
>
> see you ! (até mais...)
>
>
> Alexandre Benson Smith
> Development
> THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
> Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> www.thorsoftware.com.br
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