>So add scalability to your iSeries justification, Ron.  How well will
>your Windows DB server scale past 10 million records?

And 

>The MS database engine just sucks at large tables.

Um, really, that's news to the servers I have with millions of rows in a
table. A quick select on a million row table on a P4 2Ghz w/786meg off a
40 gig ide drive (test machine I have sitting here) returned 21 rows in
18ms. 

-Walden

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Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x11
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com

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