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Shortened swid:

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In addition to increasing the performance of the data transfer, reducing the length of a swid reduces the amount of memory required to serve up the data. This topic reflects a tendency to sometimes “over-engineer” a station database by creating unnecessarily deep hierarchies. Of course some hierarchy is necessary, but more is not necessarily better...