Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/23/07 21:41

Greg D. Moore (Strider) (mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com) writes:
> No, and there never has been. That's a misunderstanding of the old
> query governer built into MSDE (whcih permitted only 5 or 6 (I've seen
> both numbers)) of queries to run at the same time before things were
> slowed down on purpose).
>
> SQL Server Express 2005 does not have that limit. Rather it is limited in
> DB size (2GB), CPU (1) and memory (I believe 1GB). But within those
> parameters it operates at full-speed and works very well.

But keep in mind that SQL Express does not come with SQL Agent, which can
be a killer for Neil if he wants to schedule backsup and that.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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