SAP DMS - Content Server and Unicode - What is effect on size?

[Former Member]

We know that unicode conversion will cause the database to grow in size. I understand that this will apply to the SAP tables with data and metadata etc. The question is whether the actual content (drawings, Word, Excel and PDF documents etc) that are stored in the Content Server will also cause database growth when Unicode conversion is done. We have customers who have large Content Servers in their DMS landscape, and the actual documents are by far the largest part of the size.

Kind Regards - Frank

[nils_buerckel]

Hi,

although this thread is very old, there might be still people reading it ...

The Unicode conversion actually converts character like data only. And documents are usually stored as binary data ... hence the size of those objects does not change.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel