archiving off old issues

archiving off old issues

Hello!
we have over 13,000 tickets in the system, and in order to search all of them i have to use the "All requests" filter, and wait for all tickets to be returned before i query.
 
this begs two questions......
 
1.  Can we archive off old data?  (i've called about this and have been told NO, but i am having a hard time beliving that since it doesnt make much sense).  I cannot delete the data, but the DB is becoming rather large and hard to search.  (we are on MS SQL)
 
2. Can i search for something without having to go to the "All Request" filter?  for example, if i want to see all tickets with a particular word in the subject line.....???? or if i want to see all requests by one user? 
 
 
thank you,
LB


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