Log Shipping – NORECOVERY vs. STANDBY mode

 

Every now and then i see a question pop up that asks what is the max this or that in sql server?

Well here are some maximum values:

Bytes per short string column	8,000
Bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY	8,060
Columns in GROUP BY, ORDER BY	Limited only by number of bytes
Bytes per index key	900
Bytes per foreign key	900
Bytes per primary key	900
Bytes per row	8,060
Bytes per varchar(max), varbinary(max), xml, text, or image column	2^31-1
Characters per ntext or nvarchar(max) column	2^30-1
Clustered indexes per table	1
Columns per index key	16
Columns per foreign key	16
Columns per primary key	16
Columns per base table	1,024
Columns per SELECT statement	4,096
Columns per INSERT statement	1,024
Connections per client	32,767
Database size	1,048,516 terabytes
Databases per instance of SQL Server	32,767
Filegroups per database	32,767
Files per database	32,767
File size (data)	16 terabytes
File size (log)	2 terabytes
Foreign key table references per table	253
Identifier length (in characters)	128
Instances per computer	50 (Workgroup Edition only 16)
Locks per connection	Maximum locks per server
Locks per instance of SQL Server	Up to 2,147,483,647
Nested stored procedure levels	32
Nested subqueries	32
Nested trigger levels	32
Nonclustered indexes per table	249
Parameters per stored procedure	2,100
Parameters per user-defined function	2,100
REFERENCES per table	253
Rows per table	Limited by available storage
Tables per database	Limited by number of objects in a database
Partitions per partitioned table or index	1,000
Statistics on non-indexed columns	2,000
Tables per SELECT statement	256
Triggers per table	Limited by number of objects in a database
UNIQUE indexes or constraints per table	249 nonclustered and 1 clustered
User connections	32,767
XML indexes	249