is this updateable sql views and triggers that move older records to the archive? On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, der.hans wrote: There's also a 'virtual table' feature of some sort that allows me to designate multiple tables as a single table. I'm really wanting to exploit this for archiving. Roll old stuff into a secondary table and normal queries only hit the most recent table, but reports needing more history can automagically query the whole archive of data. I think that's just me being lazy because it could be done with some sub-queries, but it's so much easier to let the db take care of it ;-).