Size limit for SQL databases?

  • Do you now if there is a size limit to SQL server databases? For example, is there a limit to number of rows in a table or the size of data/log files? If there is, would there be a difference dependent on the version of SQL that you are using? I'm currently using 2000 but plan to move to 2005 soon.

  • That information is found in the Max Capacity section of the docs of each version of SQL Server.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432(SQL.90).aspx

    Database size 32bits 524,258 terabytes 64bits 524,258 terabytes

    Kind regards,
    Gift Peddie

  • The limits change at times in versions, but to date I haven't heard anyone talking about reaching the limits.

  • Yes the change from 2000 to 2005 was a lot so I assumed it also changed in 2008 but the database size did not change.

    Kind regards,
    Gift Peddie

  • Steve Jones - Editor (2/5/2009)


    The limits change at times in versions, but to date I haven't heard anyone talking about reaching the limits.

    If anyone in the world has a 500 000 terabyte database I'd love to know about it, and know what they're storing it on.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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