Brian,
They won't be readable while they are compressed but yes, standard
compression utilities on data files work just fine.
If you want to make the data much smaller (potentially), you might want to
consider compressing the data in the database using basic or HCC. You will
get higher compression of the data and you won't have to worry about having
to uncompress the data files before using them again.
Seth Miller
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
ofcourse.
On 1 February 2016 at 17:09, Zelli, Brian <Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I have copies of dbf files sitting on a server. Management doesn’t wantme
deleting them. So to garnish space, can I compress these? They are only
copies of the existing readonly dbffiles…
Brian
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