---
title: "True Binary Serialization and Compression of Datasets"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/3/true-binary-serialization-and-compression-of-datasets.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/3/true-binary-serialization-and-compression-of-datasets.html"
published: "2004-04-03T10:26:00"
updated: "2004-04-03T10:26:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Scott Galloway points, in the a comment to this post, to an article that explains how to do binary serialization and compression of Datasets , which can come in handy when you're looking for something like that.."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# True Binary Serialization and Compression of Datasets

By Roy Osherove April 3, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 3, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Scott Galloway](http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/) points, in the a comment to [this](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jkimble/archive/2004/03/30/10383.aspx) post, to an [article that explains how to do binary serialization and compression of Datasets](http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20031219.asp), which can come in handy when you're looking for something like that..

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## About the author

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