Did you look into table partitioning?

>Anyone know any good articles relating to data archive strategies?
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>Lets say that you have two tables.
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>Invoice_Header, Invoice_Items
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>In the past, what I've done is to create two more tables like:
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>Invoice_header_archive and invoice_items_archive
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>and copy the records out of the "current" tables and into the archive tables. This serves the purpose of reducing the size of the current tables and consequently improving performance.
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>This is (obviously) an over-simplified version, but I was curious what others do for data archiving where you want to keep the data accessible.