"Ann W. Harrison" wrote:

>> it seems that this is a source of my problem :( what is the exact
>> limit? how to calculate it?
>
> The calculation is complicated because it depends on the actual size
> of compressed records in the table.
>
> If the compressed record size is 10 bytes you get 27,042,386,672
> records. If the compressed record size is 50 bytes, 54,488,391,056
> records. If the compressed record sizes is 100 bytes 62,405,507,705.

It should be bytes, not records ...

Ivan