Comments on: Scaling the database out, not up. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/scaling-the-database-out-not-up/ Tue, 07 May 2013 13:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/scaling-the-database-out-not-up/#comment-1669 Mrdenny Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:27:25 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/scaling-the-database-out-not-up/#comment-1669 Rashmimb,
SQL Server will scale pretty large on a single physical server. Single servers come as large as 256 cores and 2 TB of memory. Scaling beyond those numbers requires quite a bit of database and application redesign to spread the load across multiple servers. There are ways to federate the application across multiple servers, but they aren’t easy (and can’t really be covered in a blog post or a comment).

What size server do you have? What are the specs? What part of the server is being maxed out (disks, CPU, memory)?

Denny

]]> By: RASHMIMB http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/scaling-the-database-out-not-up/#comment-1668 RASHMIMB Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:30:08 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/scaling-the-database-out-not-up/#comment-1668 When my database has grown beyond the performance capabilities of a single SQL Server, what are the ways get increase the system performance?

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