>Thanks, David. What would be part of a "reasonable maintenance cycle" other than scheduled backups and occasional archiving? Do you mean using one of the repair utils in a preventive mode?

Packing the table on occasion (using the PACK command) is also a good idea. To my knowledge it doesn't optimize the memo file, like a disk defragmenter would for a disk, but it does remove some of the inevitable clutter that builds up in the file.