> On the new server, searches seem to be quite zippy once the
> indexes are in memory... the first search is slow, after that, it's quick=
..

For the money you invested you could have RAM many times more in
GBytes than the entire PICList archieve database. MS SQL Server is a
really good product in my opinion. You just need to use it
efficiently.
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