>Gregory,
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>Thanks.
>
>It is for laboratory analysis on meterial. Lots of things to check.

John;

You may wish to consider MSDE or SQL Server.

http://www.assetnow.com/index.cfm/12,355,78,html for specs on MSDE.

I have done a few such applications, one for chemical analysis and the other for Heat Transfer Analysis in Nuclear Fuel Elements. The one for chemical analysis required 81 samples (rows of data) for each profile of a chemical. So besides a large number of columns we had to be able to store many records.

Tom