December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Database-Level Guidelines
Database allocations—We like to use an approach of putting database files for heavily used databases on the same drives as lightly used databases when more than one database is being managed by a single SQL Server instance. In other words, pair big with small, not big with big. This approach is termed reciprocal database pairing.
You should also not have too many databases on a single SQL Server instance. If the server fails, so do all the applications that were using the databases managed by this one SQL Server instance. ...