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4KB? That's nothing. Search for 'media.sql' in any recent Adobe installation media. You'll find 3 MB+ SQL files, containing: -(BASE64?) encoded InstallerIcon
by JBiserkov 15y ago
4KB? That's nothing. Search for 'media.sql' in any recent Adobe installation media. You'll find 3 MB+ SQL files, containing:
-(BASE64?) encoded InstallerIcon,
-(BASE64?) encoded EULAs in various languages
-GUIDs like {01C3BD72-7371-4472-B179-B4DFE6DDD251}
-and my personal favorite: a 25 KB XML fragment
- gecko 15y agoThere was a source control system whose code I had the pleasure of reading several months ago whose favorite way to store data was as a SQLite3 database, with a single table, with a single column, with a single row, containing JSON. Words failed me. Based on what you're describing, I now believe those developers were poached from Adobe.
- flomo 15y agoI can see the value of sticking that kind of stuff into a SQLite database rather than some obscure structured resource format.
- semanticist 15y agoIt's common to use SQLite for data storage in Mac OS X, but 3MB SQLite databases aren't the same thing as a 4KB database query, which is the horror the original comment was admitting to. :o)