> I know that Mike Grover is running a 250Gb+ FB database under Win32
> without any problems (I'm almost sure that he's running W2K)...

Mike if you're listening, let us know.

>
> Having said that, there is something about the 'near' 200Gb size that
> has caused other problems for some users -- "resources exhausted" rings
> a bell.
>
> Perhaps this problem is an NT specific issue -- there is a difference in
> the way that NT and W2K manage paged/non-paged memory.

Now I'm excited, I asked someone that works on SQL2K for Microsoft and he
hasn't got back to me yet with 2K limits.

I intend testing but the Co's standard is NT & I only have limited 2K test
environment ( < 100GB).