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  • WWDMark (2/22/2013)


    Oliiii (2/22/2013)


    We've tried mirroring many DB on the same instance and we started having problem at around 50 DBs, that might have changed on SQL 2012 though but mirroring is not designed for that kind of things.

    @ Oliiiii - What problems did you come up against when you hit 50 DB's, I have heard that MS recommend no more than 10 databases on a 32bit system as well - is that you're experience?

    We started to get have more and more delay in the synchro and a once any of the DB required more resources, the effect would impact all the other much quicker. In the end the DBs would fail several time a day, even with high timeout.

    We don't have 32 bits server, but for 64bits our local msft contact said we should not expect it to work beyond 50 DBs mirrored (no idea if that's an official recommendation or just a friendly advice).