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These are the limits:
Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist)
-Maximum size for a table? 64 TB on all operating systems
+Maximum size for a table? 16 TB
Maximum size for a row? unlimited in 7.1 and later
Maximum size for a field? 1GB in 7.1 and later
Maximum number of rows in a table? unlimited
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disk space and memory/swap space. Performance may suffer when these
values get unusually large.
+ The maximum table size of 16TB does not require large file support
+ from the operating system. Large tables are stored as multiple 1GB
+ files.
+
+ The maximum table size and maximum number of columns can be increased
+ by four if the default block size is increased to 32k.
+
4.7) How much database disk space is required to store data from a typical
text file?