A quick bit of background - We have a table "orders" which has about 10k records written into it per day. This is the most queried table in the database. To keep the table small we plan to move the records written into it a week or so ago into a different table. This will be done by an automated job. While we understand it would make sense to pop the history off to a separate server we currently just have a single DB server. A quick bit of background - We have a table "or