Size of QVD

[#1]

Hi All,

I have just created couple of QVDs and  QVWs for same tables.

As for as I know QVDs contain compressed data therefore size of the files should be smaller than regular QVWs...right?

QVD Files which I have created are actually have bigger size than QVW. Is it possible that the size of QVD is slightly bigger than QVW or I am doing something wrong?

One qvw is 52 MB and qvd for same table is 96 MB large.

Thanks for your reply in advance.

TA

[danielrozental]

It's the other way around.

QVDs don't really compress data, what they do is eliminate duplicates, they only store one version of every value.

QVWs implement a compression algorithm, in the document properties you can change the compression rate.

[#3]

Daniel,

Thanks for your reply. So does this means that size of the QVD can be bigger than QVW?

PS: Are you German? Your name seems like German Name? 🙂

[danielrozental]

Yes, that's usually the case.

No, I'm not German, I'm from Argentina from Polish descent.