[AccessD] SQL Server Express - true skinny

Hi Jim:

OTOH quoted directly from MS documentation: 

"...maximum database size of 4 GB per database (increased to 10 GB for SQL
Server Express 2008 R2) (compared to 2 GB in the former MSDE). The limit
applies per database (log files excluded); but in some scenarios users can
access more data through the use of multiple interconnected databases."

So who is still using MS SQL 2005 when MS SQL 2008 is freely available and
is easy to do an over-write.

Jim


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
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 This one says 4:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345154(SQL.90).aspx

  and I've always known it to be 4.  Could have changed it though for
2008....

Jim. 

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Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] SQL Server Express - true skinny

I took the 10g right from their web page "comparing versions".

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 9/10/2010 3:35 PM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>
> <<So the question is, would SQL Server express be capable of replacing Jet
> for a complex bound
> application for 30 users?>>
>
>    I've never had occasion to try it myself, but from what I understand,
for
> 2005 and up that is correct.  The old 5 connection limit was removed.
>
>    However the DB limit is 4GB, not 10.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 2:09 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Sqlserver-Dba; VBA
> Subject: [AccessD] SQL Server Express - true skinny
>
> Does anyone know the true skinny on the limitations placed on SQL Server
> express in order to
> "throttle" it.?
>
> I found a blog that claims that outside of CPU / Memory / DB size
> limitations, there is not other
> "governor".
>
> So it appears that the limitations are:
>
> 10 gig db file size.  This does not discuss additional database files.
> 1 CPU.  However it appears that it can use 4 cores if available
> 1 gig of memory.  This appears to be the killer.
>
> But there appears to be no "user" limitations etc.
>
> So the question is, would SQL Server express be capable of replacing Jet
for
> a complex bound
> application for 30 users?
>
>
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