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Re: Large Image Handling FAQ? [message #14528]

Wed, 10 March 1999 00:00

Earl F. Glynn
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Registered: March 1999

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Craig Markwardt wrote in message ...
> Chunking is your friend. That is, operating on a "large" but not "too
> large" subsegments of your data at once

"Chunking" is exactly what the Microsoft "Terraserver" does --
supposedly with 1.01 terabytes compressed the world's largest
database:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

I' guessing, but it appears that a request for data is turned into
SQL database calls that pull the desired "chunks" together.

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		Re: Large Image Handling FAQ? By: Earl F. Glynn on Wed, 10 March 1999 00:00
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