Re: Multiple databases

From: Derrick Leggett (derrickleggett_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:00:35 -0500

Instances provide better isolation from a security and environment
perspective. I've isolated the HR and accounting environments to their own
instances for this reason. We also have third party on a different instance
from standard production. Othe than that, the mainline production
(in-house) systems are all on one production instance.

"Mark Allison" <marka@no.tinned.meat.mvps.org> wrote in message
news:u2VtYs3uEHA.1616@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> sql,
>
> Multiple instances consumes much, much more resources. I rarely use
> multi-instance SQL Servers except for dev and test environments.
> Definitely go for multi-database.
> --
> Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.markallison.co.uk
>
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>
> sql wrote:
> > Which is better..
> >
> > Multiple databases on a single instance of SQL
> > OR
> > Multiple instances of Sql server, for multiple databases?



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