Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 10/01/83 11:39

"Paul" <paulwragg2323@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139501789.272455.6750@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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> It turns out that we have a table that is over 1GB in size. We only had
> the server configured to allow SQL Server to use 800MB.
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This may hurt performance but should not break things.

We routinely use tables multiple gigabytes in size.

But we did hit a bug (I forget details) in a query we were doing on a SQL
2000 SP3 DB.

SP4 fixed it.


> Therefore, when we were querying using a query resulting in a full
> table scan there was not enough memory to perform the query. Instead of
> returning an error it basically just stopped (or maybe it was doing the
> query but it would take years!).
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> Anyway, thanks to all those that posted!
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> Paul
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