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<P>These are the limits:</P>
<PRE>
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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available disk space and memory/swap space. Performance may
suffer when these values get unusually large.
+ <P>The maximum table size of 16TB does not require large file
+ support from the operating system. Large tables are stored
+ as multiple 1GB files.
+
+ <P>The maximum table size and maximum number of columns can be
+ increased by four if the default block size is increased to 32k.
+
<H4><A name="4.7">4.7</A>) How much database disk space is required
to store data from a typical text file?<BR>
</H4>