What is the maximum number of databases that an sql server 2008r2 can hold.

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Hi,
I am sorry if this is a silly question But
I want to know is there any limit of databases that an sql server can hold effectively.
Or it depends completely on the configuration of the hardware.

Posted 27-Jan-15 23:52pm

K.Y.S.Phaneendra

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jaket-cp 28-Jan-15 6:01am

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432(v=sql.105).aspx
Databases per instance of SQL Server 32/64bit
32,767

also look at Instances per computer - do the maths

Richard Deeming 28-Jan-15 8:08am

You should post this as a solution! :)

jaket-cp 28-Jan-15 8:43am

okay have done :)

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Read this artical
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlexpress/archive/2010/04/21/database-size-limit-increased-to-10gb-in-sql-server-2008-r2-express.aspx[^]

Posted 28-Jan-15 1:37am

Dnyaneshwar@Pune

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jaket-cp 28-Jan-15 7:42am

I believe op was asking amount of databases on server and not size.
But I could be mistaken.
Also tagged as SQL-server-2008R2 and not Express version.
Nevertheless, good to know info :)

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jaket-cp · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-28T02:42:00

Doing a Google search with "What is the maximum number of databases that an sql server 2008r2 can hold", the results of the search should direct you to:
Maximum Capacity Specifications for SQL Server - MSDN[^]
From the page:

Databases per instance of SQL Server 32/64 bit
32,767

Instances per computer 32/64 bit
50 instances on a stand-alone server
or
25 instances on a failover cluster

Do the maths and that should be the limit.