The sort of applications I am looking at would use a number of small databases that have no relation to each other. I'd have maybe 10 databases with structure but no data to use as templates and then as many other databases as the user wants.

I could use compressed backups for the templates but that isn't feasible for the user databases.

Regards

Sean
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Sean Cross
Systems Development

CRM
PO Box 230
Napier
Phone:   06 835 5868
Mobile:  021 270 3466
Email:   sean.cross@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Alexandre Benson Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 5:48 p.m.
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Strange question time, how
> small can I make an empty database
>
> Sean Cross - CRM wrote:
> > I am considering using firebird for my next project. This
> will use a number of databases. As size is important, I
> would like to have the databases as small as is practical.
> When I create an empty db file, it is about 600k which is too
> large for my purposes. After playing with the creation sql I
> have got it down to about 240k. Is it possible to create a
> smaller db than that?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Sean
> > -----------------------------
> > Sean Cross
> > Systems Development
> >
> > CRM
> > PO Box 230
> > Napier
> > Phone: 06 835 5868
> > Mobile: 027 276 6439
> > Email: sean.cross@...
> >
> >
> Bak-it up, and zip it, even if you use a bigger page size
> (the option that gave you an empty 600k database) will be
> very very small when zipped.
>
> see you !
>
> --
> Alexandre Benson Smith
> Development
> THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
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