>This didn't work. In my test case, I have 2 meg of data and then about 3-4K of data being written to the same memo field hundreds of times. I set the blocksize to aroung 5 meg (blocksize of 1000) and memo bloat occurred almost instantly.

John,

You did NOT set the blocksize to 5 megs by doing what you did, you set it to 1000 bytes.

A SET BLOCKSIZE TO 32 would give you 32 * 512bytes for the blocksize.

Any number higher gives you a blocksize of the number you specify.

good luck