I have a database table in SQL Server 2005 Express that takes in 2367 new rows each day, there is only 3 columns for each row. So in a year this will give around 800k of rows and in 10 years 8 million rows. Since I know that the company where I'm making this installation will not handle any database management/cleanup my question is will a SQL Server 2005 Express be able to handle this many rows in a single table? Are there any limits? I do know that there is something like 4gig of file size limit.
EDIT: Table setup
[RefId] [bigint] NOT NULL,
[PointDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
[PointValue] [decimal](10, 2) NOT NULL
note: SQL Server 2005 Express doesn't allow you to set up jobs.
The database size limit is 10Gb since SQL Server 2008 R2. No matter what, an Express installation will still require maintenance (specially backups). You better think of something now.
The documentation says limited by available storage. So it's likely you'll hit a bottleneck somewhere else first, like some MBA with Access doing select Count() from Table on with an external link to the live database.
Other maximums you might run into first.
MSDN SQL 2005 Capacity Specicifications
Other versions are available from the page as well, for those who have a need.
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We are looking to upgrade the sql server from 2008 to 2017 which has multiple databases from few years back and don't have idea that really databases are much in use and those tables into databases are used lately or not, if not then we can obsolete the database or tables which ones are not used anymore.
We would like to get the results of Unused Database and Tables then store into table (Ex. UnUsedDBAndTables) and run through Sql agent job for daily or every 3 days and need to update the
How we can implement so we can check and analysis this table (UnUsedDBAndTables) for period of time and make determination which ones are really not needed to migrate.
Thanks for your help!
One of our custom reached the 10GB size limitation of SQL-Express edition. There are 2 tables contains too many training data. Could we partition tables on sql express edition? Is there any help link for this issue?
We had design a solution to refactor the tables and codes. But Partition tables sound like much easier.
No, man - unfortunately you can do nothing.
SQL Express 2005 & 2008 R1 4 Gb database size limit
SQL Express 2008 R2 10 Gb database size limit
SQL Express 2012 10 Gb database size limit
SQL Express 2014 10 Gb database size limit
SQL Express 2016 10 Gb database size limit
I have try before to find a work around because I wanted to use T-SQL syntax to manipulate some data and did not succeed.
Also, even if you find a way there is always possibility to violate the SQL Server license.
Use another database (there are open source solutions) or upgrade to standard edition.
Just create another database and move your table to the newly created database and do a cross database query.
You can even create a synonym to it so everything will be transparent to your front-end code.
My company has a legacy system that has run into a problem. The code is a combination of VB6, C# and SQL where the SQL consists of thousands of lines of in-line SQL pasted into a 'C#' application. Many temporary tables are created (and dropped). Finding the position in the code where a temporary table might be created or re-used is not easy (to say the least).
When run using SQL Server 2008 R2 the code behaves as expected. However, when running SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2016 one gets the error "There is already an object named '#whatever' in the database."
On the SQL Server 2014 database the compatability level on the database has been set as SQL Server 2008(100) and the MAX DOP (which I suspected to be the possibe source of the problem) has been set to 1.
Is there anyone who has experienced something similiar and if so is there any known workaround. The system is 25 years old and we want to retire the system, but there are those who simply love it too much.
The answer is actually amusing and simple. The developers used this function:
public static bool TemporaryTableExists(string TempTableNameWithHash, DataConnection mDataConnection)
{
return Convert.ToInt32(mDataConnection.GetValueFromSelect(string.Format("SELECT COALESCE(OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.{0}'),0)", TempTableNameWithHash))) > 0;
}
The problem is the > 0. In SQL Server 2014 it seems that OBJECT_ID returns a negative value for a temporary table.
I have a table (myTable) in which I have a field flagged as being a Filestream, on this server it is the only filestream and it saves to the filestream location of F:\foo
SELECT COUNT(1) FROM myTable results in 37,314 but the folder properties of F:\foo are 36,358 files. All the rows in myTable have data in the Filestream column, does that mean 956 were complete duplicates?
If so, how does SQL Server determine what is and what is not a duplicate (is it a complete binary compare? as I don't think it would be worth SQL Storing data at a block-differential level)? As I can't seem to find any information SQL Server consolidating duplicate records for filestreams.
Additionally when I re-save many of the same records again (making the count say 45,000) the total files in F:\foo increase which to me indicates that the duplicate checking (if there is any such thing) is not perfect.
Does SQL Server consolidate similar files in filestreams together or not? Is there a stored procedure that can be executed to cause SQL to re-scan the filestream filegroup and look for further duplicates to consolidate existing space?
Server in question is SQL Server 2012 Enterprise with SP1 but has also happened on our UAT SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition with SP1 box.
The dynamic management views of SQL Server 2005 can give usage information about table indexes. Is there a similar method for getting usage information about column statistics? In specific, I'm curious if some of the older column statistics I've created are still being used. If not, I'd like to delete them.
no there isn't. there are however sys.stats_columns and sys.stats catalog views