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  3. February 2006

Chaining with a very large file

we may be faced with having to allow an interactive program to do a chain to 
a very large file; one with approximately 1.1 billion records and a file 
size of approximately 9.7gb of disk space.

Are there any performance issues that I should take into consideration?  
Should I consider breaking the data down into multiple files? 

The file will have a total of three numeric fields, all packed, 5 digits for 
the first two and 4 digits for the third.

Suggestions, thoughts, helpful hints.....would all be appreciated.


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