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Best Field Type for IP address?
Posted by: Jared Valarta ()
Date: October 12, 2005 12:19PM
I have a very large table (700mb currently) which is growing and I'm looking for ways to shrink it's size without loosing data.
One of the fields is IP address (xx.xx.xx.xx) which I have currently as a varchar(15). Is there a better field type for IP address that would maximize storage? I thought about Decimal but given an IP has multiple dots I was affraid to try it not knowing the result.
Any thoughts appriciated.
One of the fields is IP address (xx.xx.xx.xx) which I have currently as a varchar(15). Is there a better field type for IP address that would maximize storage? I thought about Decimal but given an IP has multiple dots I was affraid to try it not knowing the result.
Any thoughts appriciated.
| Subject | Views | Written By | Posted |
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| Best Field Type for IP address? | 33960 | Jared Valarta | 10/12/2005 12:19PM |
| Re: Best Field Type for IP address? | 21889 | 10/17/2005 01:37PM | |
| Re: Best Field Type for IP address? | 32631 | Me Me | 05/18/2006 01:23PM |
| Re: Best Field Type for IP address? | 12560 | Chris C | 10/02/2006 09:34AM |
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