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Message Posted: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 @ 10:32:50 GMT

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<-- Anonymously Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 03:58 -->

Hi All

Our TD system has a block size of 512 bytes.

I did a simple test like below

     CREATE MULTISET TABLE testvarchar
     (col1 VARCHAR(510));

Ideally, when I insert a text with 510 characters, it should still hold within a single datablock (510 characters + 2 presence and offset bytes).

But according to my test here, I could not fit anything more than 431 characters into a single datablock.

I also tried inserting NULLs and I could fit in only 25 NULLs in col1 in one datablock, whereas I would have expected around 255 nulls.

Am I missing something here?

I'm doing these as a part of my evaluation using varchars vs char/ compress. I will be really grateful if you can point out an algorithm that you have implemented in this regard.

Regards

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