Hello,

If I have a database of 5 GB with only 20 tables in it, how many of
those can we put in how many database servers on a high end machine
(Dual Xeon 8 GB on windows 2003)?
It is to maka a quotation and an estimation of the cost.

TIA

Mario

sledge (Witdoek [at] gmail.com) writes:
> If I have a database of 5 GB with only 20 tables in it, how many of
> those can we put in how many database servers on a high end machine
> (Dual Xeon 8 GB on windows 2003)?
> It is to maka a quotation and an estimation of the cost.

The lowest of 32762 and (the available disk space/5GB).

If you mean the practical limit, before the machine suffocates under the
load, that's impossible to answer, without knowing the traffic per
database.


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