>John,
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>You don't sound antagonistic. ;-)
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>I don't mean spanning across more than one disk, I mean resultsets automatically spooling to disk rather than occupying more and more memory and killing the PC.

Oh. Okay. We have worked out this type of behavior using a custom incremental serialization/deserialization to binary as we need it. Gives us somewhat the same functionality I guess. We had a real problem trying to load 4 input files into memory, all of which, were 260 megs plus...