> I am also curious as to why an SQL dump from the production
> server would
> come out to 2.8G but a dump of an exact replica on a test
> box would come
> out to 3.0G. What determines the size and makeup of an SQL
> dump?
Why not repeat the dump without any compression then compare them with a file comparison tool?
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