thanks for your comments, 2 questions, that i hope you can help me with

1)  i have been offered a server for around £3000+vat for a quad 2.0 xeon with 8...

Thanks very much Remi, it does help to bounce ideas

i currently do not have the data to test.

it is part of a business deal where we will be taking this data as part of a contrat. so i do...

thankyou for your reply, unfortunatly i have very little experience of sql server and have been dropped in the deep end.

i do not know what a lot of your...