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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 March 2010 15:20, Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know it sounds silly but...
> We out log looks something like
> event_id 1234567 event_actor, event_blabla then subject
> alot of times the whole line is the same except for the timestamp
> why not make log
> event_id, event_timestamp, event_rest
> event_rest will refer to another table with the remaining details of the
> event and subjects since they could be repeated.
> It wont break the API however it will add a new join but i think it could
> help us out alot
> so instead of a log with 13 columns full of ids
> we will have one with 3 and another with 10
> however that with 10 will not populate up very high

I am a bit confused at what you are proposing here. Can you make a
more detailed sketch of the idea - preferably with some per-event byte
counts?

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Cheers,
Mikkel