• copying to another table would require another 135 GB on the disk ..... do we have that much space ...

    you could try a BCP with queryout to output to a file (smaller in size, faster as well) with the data that you eventually want to keep.

    then you truncate the table

    then you BCP in the file from step 1

    just some thoughts....

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    -Amit
    Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he wont get paged on weekends !! :w00t: - desparately trying to fish [/size]