>>It is probably around 65k.
LOL. That sort of figure seems strangely familiar... ;-)
A SQL query of 65K length? What does it do? Is it possible to process subqueries separately or do as N suggested and use server-side views?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1