>Hilmar,
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>What's your point #2 (20 times as much...)? I've not heard this before.
That's my personal estimate - the exact situation may make the factor vary.
Aadding a 50 KB JPG file to a general field made the memo field more than 1 MB bigger.
I believe that with compressed formats like JPG or GIF, the difference is especially dramatic, because - if I understand correctly - the general field saves two copies of a file: one, the original version, and the other, a standardized version, for display. This latter would be uncompressed, IOW, just as if you convert the JPG to a BMP.
Just try this test: Create a table with a general field, and add a single empty record. Import a single JPG image to the general field, and see how much the table size increases.
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