Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion
by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, Burzin Patel, Stacia Misner, Victor Isakov
SQL Server 2005 Capacity Limits
Although rare, every once in a while you may encounter a SQL Server 2005 component preset capacity limit. The most common capacity limits are "maximum number of columns per index" and "maximum number of indexes/statistics per table." There will also be times when you have questions about the maximum number of rows you can have in a table or the number of database instances you can host on a single system. Table 2-11 helps answer these questions by listing the maximum values for various SQL Server database engine objects.
Table 2-11. Maximum Capacity Limits for SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Database Engine Object | Maximum Values |
|---|---|
Batch size | 65,536 × Network Packet Size |
Bytes per short string column | 8,000 |
Bytes per GROUP ... |
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