How many instances we can create

  • Hi all

    I have small doubt, how many instances we can create in production environment

    and how many databases we can create on each instance

    as per my knowledge we can create only one instance in production environment and also we can create multiple databases

    if create multiple instances it will effect on performance on os level or system level

    is this correct if anything wrong please correct it

  • Much of the information you need is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms143432(v=sql.105).aspx. Although a lot of this would be dependant on if your hardware could cope with it.

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  • Thank you very much

  • Multiple instances will absolutely affect performance, yes. You just need to monitor your systems to understand how much they will affect it.

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