To aid you in your decision making process, you can make a dupe of that table (structure-wise... you will not need the 2 gigs of data), go in where you modify the structure of the table and go to the 'table' tab. The area on this tab that says Length is telling you the size of each record. You can make modifications to the structure & come back to this tab to see how you've effected the size of any given record.

>What about the currency type... does this take up less space ?
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>>>Hi.
>>>I've hit the 2 gig lim on a file in an app
>>>It would be a huge job to start splitting up the file , or going to SQL SERVER so i'm trying to identify other options,
>>>There arent that many characyer felds that I can reduce, but there are a few numeric fields I could optimise.
>>>I have these now set to N 17 2 and would need to allow for 999,999,999.99
>>>Whats the Least otimum numeric data type for this ??
>>>Also, if there are any other suggestions ?
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>>>Regards,
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>>>Gerard
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>>Well I make that N 12 2 should do - no?
>>If you don't need the dec places then integer would just do it.
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>>See "Data and Filed Types" in Help for capacities.
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>>HTH
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>>Terry