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"We have a file that is used by all of our clients, and it's a high volume transaction table of sorts (adding 1 byte to the file equates to roughly 190mb of storage, assuming 200 million records total, and if I'm doing my math right: 200,000,000 /1024 /1024). Because of this, and disk space, there is resistance to adding new fields to the file. We have additional disk budgeted, but who knows if that will get approved. I have approval to add 5 identifier columns. I was going to add them as 9p 0 (5 bytes) each..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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