>>>Either way you look at it you are flirting with disaster if your memos are that large. If you have a dbf, fpt or cdx over 2 gig you should consider either redisigning your schema to scale better or use another data engine that doesn't have the size limitation of a dbf/fpt structure, IMO.
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>>Hi Eric,
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>>In pursuit of 'another data engine', I just priced SQL Server 2000 at $4678, which I dont think my client will swallow...
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>>I am going to try to store the data as character records in a table, copy them into an edit box for editing, then strip out carriage returns etc. and save each line as a record back to the table.
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>>I tried to find something that does this in the 'download' section of the UT but was unable.
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>>Thanks for your help.
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>You can also use MSDE which is the SQL Server data engine. I don't know whats it's limitations are, if any.
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>You could also try using a compression utility.

Eric;

I think the MSDE route is more restrictive with a 2 gig limit for the dbc or a table. So you can have two tables of 1 gig each and you hit the limit. It does have its uses thought.

Tom