Re: [GENERAL] 32KB Tuples

2000-06-07 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Patrick Welche wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:42:08PM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > > A 'tuple' is an element of a set. A set is also called a table. When you do N > > insertions on a table, then you get a table/set of N tuples. When you > > query a table/set, then your result is also a set

Re: [GENERAL] 32KB Tuples

2000-06-06 Thread Patrick Welche
What exactly is a "tuple"? One entire row of a table? Or one "line" of a reply to a query? (I suspect it's the entire row of a table, but I have had a case with text fields, where one field was updated with about 7k. All selects would deal either with that field or the others. The first time the