note space_monk <p>You caught my comment whilst it was being drafted; I did state another reason for the approach I suggested. <p>Memory is almost never a problem nowadays unless you're running it on your 15 year old PC, but 300k rows * 64 k per row (19GB??) may give some pause for thought. Time to go shopping for more memory or increase your cache. :-) <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-880879"> A Monk aims to give answers to those who have none, and to learn from those who know more. </div></div> 1013641 1013755