> Does sound like an awful lot of data.  I think the question might be
> reworded to ask is there any manageable logical groups of data that
> might lend themselves to simple segmentation into separate
> tables/databases?

I thought about asking that as well, but wondered if there wasn't a simpler
solution that would make his existing setup work.

>
> Commercial databases often range into terabytes but I doubt many
> accomplish those numbers with a single table.  None that I have worked
> on ever have, including "never ever forget", (spool or delete) SAP:-)

Yeah, I just noticed some of them have support for transparently
querying across multiple tables to handle this sort of thing without
so much pain!

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