> Three years (and two days) ago Bill Karwin wrote "InterBase's theoretical
> maximum is 32TB I believe." I don't know whether that has been increased
> since, but I would be very surprised if Firebird had reduced that size. So
> yes, in theory you can have more than 980GB in a database. Though I haven't
> heard of anyone who has actually tried it...

As an aside - why would someone want so much information
locked in the one file.

Yes Firebird ( and others ) can handle that ammount of data,
but should we not be looking at improvements to Firebird
that help to reduce the size of a single file ( or file
set), and as a result simplyify the backup problem. Perhaps
flat databases did have some advantages. One of the things I
do is - in essence - but the blob information in external
files. Then only the opdated files need backing up.

This is probably a thought for the developers list, but the
idea of managing 32Tb of data sent a shiver...

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