>Christof,
>Just thought you might be interested to know that after tripling the RAM on the machine (to 384 Meg), the process buzzes by normally (within resonable time). We're pretty convinced that there is some sort of memory limitation on large tables - nothing else seemed to work noticably.
>Mark
>

I don't know what you are doing there, but I have worked quite happily with 2.5 million records, indexing, searching, cross-tabbing, et-al with no problem at all. (The longest process took about ten minutes). In a previous job, I dealt with over three million records with multiple indexes cross-referencing to remove duplicate postal addresses and the complete process (which covered seven different processes) took about five days on a DX4-100 (that was FAST at the time). BTW, my 2.5 million is on a P166 with 32MB RAM!