DB size

[Dick7Access]

When I right click on the icon on my desk top for any of my db's it says under the general tab: example: size 1.8 kb, size on disk 4.0 kb.

Surely a 14000 record db has to be bigger than that?

Secondly why is there a difference between the two sizes?

 

[gemma-the-husky]

maybe it's the icon that's 1.8kb.

Not sure, but the disk space used might be 4Kb, because the granularity of a HDD causes a minimum amount of space to be occupied by any file.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

If you have 14K records then I think the minimum size of your database has to be some small constant plus 28Kb assuming only empty records (which is certainly possible but not very enlightening...).

The icon, on the other hand, probably IS only about 1.8 kb used out of 4.0 kb in the disk allocation unit (which you can look up online). Older references would call this unit the disk cluster size. Simple icons really only contain some fixed overhead and the command-window equivalent of the command required to launch the referenced application, possibly plus the name of the file to which it points in some cases. The command line text is rarely more than 150 bytes. The rest of the icon is related to graphics (of the icon), ownership, security, and a few other things. But none of the other things are big, bulky data elements.

 

[Dick7Access]

If you have 14K records then I think the minimum size of your database has to be some small constant plus 28Kb assuming only empty records (which is certainly possible but not very enlightening...).

The icon, on the other hand, probably IS only about 1.8 kb used out of 4.0 kb in the disk allocation unit (which you can look up online). Older references would call this unit the disk cluster size. Simple icons really only contain some fixed overhead and the command-window equivalent of the command required to launch the referenced application, possibly plus the name of the file to which it points in some cases. The command line text is rarely more than 150 bytes. The rest of the icon is related to graphics (of the icon), ownership, security, and a few other things. But none of the other things are big, bulky data elements.

Thanks for answering. I don't know what I was thinking, when I made that post. I know better??? I got the above figures from the icon on my desk top. The numbers on the file on windows explore is 62.5 MB
BTW: I am in Beaumont, TX right now but on my way back to FL I will be preaching in your neck of the woods Wednesday night. Slidell, LA. Coming from LA you will like the joke I used the Last time I preached there, that went over big.

The is a big aquarium in Columbus, OH and a big aquarium in Baton Rouge, LA. The aquarium in Columbus, OH has a picture of all the fish in the tank, the name and the scientific name. The aquarium in Baton Rouge, LA, has a picture of all the fish in the tank, the name and the scientific name, and the recipe.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans has those recipes, too - and it is suspiciously close to the fish section of the Vieux Carre's "French Market."

My biggest concern is the book hanging inside the shark tank that is open to the page on human anatomy.

 

[Dick7Access]

The Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans has those recipes, too - and it is suspiciously close to the fish section of the Vieux Carre's "French Market."

My biggest concern is the book hanging inside the shark tank that is open to the page on human anatomy.

That is good joke. I am going to plagiarize it.

Here I am last night in fish country, (Slidall)and where does my host take me, Italian, and they are native New Orleans. I hinted at Copeland, but they didn't take the hint.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Dick, the place we go to for "authentic" New Orleans seafood is called "Bush House of Seafood" in Bush, LA, a few miles west of Slidell. I'm told it is not as good now as it used to be when my wife and I used to go there more frequently, but it still isn't supposed to be bad, and it has something for everyone - unless you wanted elegant décor. That, they don't have.

As to Copeland's restaurants, I find them to be inferior due to their use of pre-frozen entrees that they nuke to an appropriate temperature. I wouldn't have gone there either. Ever since Al Copeland passed on, the quality of their food has declined. Al, despite being a flashy sports-car type, was still into quality in his investments. His kids, however, are just in it for the money.

 

[Dick7Access]

Dick, the place we go to for "authentic" New Orleans seafood is called "Bush House of Seafood" in Bush, LA, a few miles west of Slidell. I'm told it is not as good now as it used to be when my wife and I used to go there more frequently, but it still isn't supposed to be bad, and it has something for everyone - unless you wanted elegant décor. That, they don't have.

As to Copeland's restaurants, I find them to be inferior due to their use of pre-frozen entrees that they nuke to an appropriate temperature. I wouldn't have gone there either. Ever since Al Copeland passed on, the quality of their food has declined. Al, despite being a flashy sports-car type, was still into quality in his investments. His kids, however, are just in it for the money.

As of right now it doesn't look like I will be in Slidell until 2018, but I should be going to Texas in March of 2017 so I think I will plan to make my motel stop around Bush, LA, and give it a try. I haven't been to Copeland in about 5 years, but they had some good bar-B- q shrimp last time I was there. The best Bar-B-Que shrimp I had however was at a place called Captain Bilbeaus in Memphis, right on river.

Of course the saying goes that there is no accounting for taste. Once in the Navy we had chicken pot pies. I thought they were ok, nothing special. The guy across from me said I can't eat this garbage. The guy to my left said give it to me, it's the best I have ever had.