Re: Because you guys/gals/girls/women/insert pc term here are a smart lot

> That's for a single table. I've not come across many databases where 20-50 tables have 10 million rows each. And with a table of that size, then I might be coerced into thinking about the storage requirements a little more. Maybe. > Now add another 20 to 50 tables depending on > the database. If you want to throw away money go ahead, but I don't know > too many clients that want to waste 10 gigs of mostly padded space. I don't know of many clients who care as long as it is performant and cost effective. Wasting 10 Gigs is not a great deal when you have a drive measured in the hundreds of Gigs. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 4th)