Top "Storage" questions

Details on how data is being kept in memory/on disks, most frequently being applied to databases, media banks and backup-recovery solutions.

Storing a file in a database as opposed to the file system?

Generally, how bad of a performance hit is storing a file in a database (specifically mssql) as opposed to the …

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What are Transient and Volatile Modifiers?

Can someone explain what the transient and volatile modifiers mean in Java?

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How to get my Android device Internal Download Folder path

It is possible to get the Android device Internal Download Folder path?

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How can I easily add storage to a VirtualBox machine with XP installed?

When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it …

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Best way to synchronize local HTML5 DB (WebSQL Storage, SQLite) with a server (2 way sync)

I am developing a mobile web application (for iPhone & Android) with a local database (using html5 webstorage) so my …

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How much storage would be required to store a human genome?

I'm looking for the amount of storage in bytes (MB, GB, TB, etc.) required to store a single human genome. …

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Android create folders in Internal Memory

Is there any way/ is it allowed to create folders in Internal Memory in Android. Example : - data -- com.…

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Repository size limits for GitHub.com

Lately I have been using GitHub and I'm wondering, what is the repository limit for files hosted on github.com? …

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Android memory types (RAM v Internal Memory)

On a separate thread I demonstrated my ignorance of memory types by asking about the best way to copy a …

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