Re: Storage issue

[David Bordas]

>Here's an example of how much data could be stored in a year:

>1 value/minute are stored = 1440 values/day.
>365 days / year.

>We have 100 different tables with 25 columns each.
>This makes 100*25*365*1440 = 1 314 000 000 values per year.

>A typical value could be 25,5624.

>How much space (in Mb) could this take up after a year do you think?

You'll find something here :
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Storage_requirements.html

Typically a float is stored on 4 Bytes ( a Byte is 8 bits ).