|  | Posted by Neil on 10/22/07 01:25 
I just made a major addition to the data in our database (SQL 7 with an Access 2000 front end). The users had been working with a set of 66,000 Word
 documents, having to open each to view when needed. I converted these docs
 to RTF format, and brought the RTF codes into the database itself. Each
 former Word doc is now stored in a single Text field in the record; and
 there is an additional Text field which is the text of the document in plain
 text format. (The average document is about 1,000 characters, and the
 average document with RTF codes is about 1,000-1,500 characters.)
 
 As a result, my database went from being about 600 MB in size to a little
 over a gig. Still not huge; but significant increase from it's original
 size.
 
 Since there's a big jump in the size, I was wondering if there's anything I
 need to do maintenance-wise to help the database use the new data.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Neil
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