Limits On Rows In A Table

Hi

We received the following in an email from a third-party supplier (who
naturally has a solution for the problem as described). It sounds like
gibberish to me, but does anyone have any comments?

<quote>
SQL in its current incarnation hits a performance brick wall when a
table contains more than about 75 million rows. This is not a
configuration limit as the table could be grown a lot larger but the
performance issue generates problems for ??????; primarily during
search and retrieval of archived objects; although if the database
engine is being heavily hit for retrieval the archiving process can
slow down as well.
</quote>

Chloe Crowder
British Library