Just to throw my own two cents in (and start repaying the debt of gratitude i owe for the help i've just received :)) also be aware that the number of tables that you can have in a database is only limited by your OS and file system. Aparently it gets a little slowerwhen you are approaching 10000 tables (becuase of the way they are stored as files on the HD). Also, on a FAT32 partition the size is limited to 2Gb