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Maximum Capacity Specifications Comparison Table

Maximum Capacity Specifications Comparison Table

The following table compares the maximum sizes and numbers of various objects defined in SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 databases or
referenced in Transact-SQL statements. The table does not include Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Windows CE Edition.
Maximum Sizes/Numbers

Object SQL Server 7.0 SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 2005 (32-bit)

Batch size 65,536 * Network Packet Size1 65,536 * Network Packet Size1 65,536 * Network Packet Size1

Bytes per short string column 8,000 8,000 8,000

Bytes per text, ntext, or image column 2 GB-2 2 GB-2 2 GB-2

Bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY 8,060 8,060 8,060

Bytes per index 900 9002 9002

Bytes per foreign key 900 900 900

Bytes per primary key 900 900 900

Bytes per row 8,060 8,060 8,0608

Bytes in source text of a stored procedure Lesser of batch size or 250 MB Lesser of batch size or 250 MB Lesser of batch size or 250 MB

Bytes per VARCHAR(MAX), VARBINARY(MAX), XML, TEXT, or

N/A N/A 2^31-1
IMAGEcolumn

Characters per NTEXT or NVARCHAR(MAX) column. N/A N/A 2^30-1

Clustered indexes per table 1 1 1

Limited only by number of bytes Limited only by number of bytes Limited only by number of bytes
Columns in GROUP BY, ORDER BY
per GROUP BY, ORDER BY per GROUP BY, ORDER BY per GROUP BY, ORDER BY

Columns or expressions in a GROUP BY WITH CUBE or WITH

10 10 10
ROLLUP statement

Columns per index 16 16 167

Columns per foreign key 16 16 16

Columns per primary key 16 16 16

Columns per base table 1,024 1,024 1,024

Columns per SELECT statement 4,096 4,096 4,096

Columns per INSERT statement 1,024 1,024 1,024

Maximum value of configured Maximum value of configured Maximum value of configured

Connections per client
connections connections connections
Database size 1,048,516 TB 1,048,516 TB 1,048,516 TB

Databases per instance of SQL Server 32,767 32,767 32,767

Filegroups per database 256 256 32,767

Files per database 32,767 32,767 32,767

File size (data) 32 TB 32 TB 16 TB

File size (log) 4 TB 32 TB 2 terabytes

Foreign key table references per table4 253 253 253

Identifier length (in characters) 128 128 128

Instances per computer N/A 16 16

Length of a string containing SQL Statements (batch size) 65,536 * Network packet size 1 65,536 * Network packet size 1 65,536 * Network packet size 1

Locks per connection Maximum locks per server Maximum locks per server Maximum locks per server

2,147,483,647 (static) 40% of 2,147,483,647 (static) 40% of

Locks per instance of SQL Server
SQL Server memory (dynamic) SQL Server memory (dynamic) Up to 2,147,483,6475

Nested stored procedure levels6 32 32 32

Nested subqueries 32 32 32

Nested trigger levels 32 32 32

Nonclustered indexes per table 249 249 249

2,147,483,647 (or available 2,147,483,647 (or available

Objects concurrently open in an instance of SQL Server3 memory) memory)

Objects in a database 2,147,483,6473 2,147,483,6473 2,147,483,6473

Parameters per stored procedure 1,024 1,024 2,100

Parameters per user-defined function 1,024 1,024 2,100

Partitions per partitioned table or index N/A N/A 1,000

REFERENCES per table 253 253 253

Rows per table Limited by available storage Limited by available storage Limited by available storage

Statistics on non-indexed columns 2,000

Limited by number of objects in Limited by number of objects in Limited by number of objects in

Tables per database
a database3 a database3 a database3

Tables per SELECT statement 256 256 256

Limited by number of objects in Limited by number of objects in Limited by number of objects in

Triggers per table
a database3 a database3 a database3
 249 nonclustered and 1 249 nonclustered and 1 249 nonclustered and 1
UNIQUE indexes or constraints per table
clustered clustered clustered

XML indexes N/A N/A 249

1
Network Packet Size is the size of the tabular data stream (TDS) packets used to communicate between applications and the relational database engine. The default packet
size is 4 kilobytes (KB), and is controlled by the network packet size configuration option.
2
The maximum number of bytes in any index key cannot exceed 900 in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. You can define a key using variable-length columns whose
maximum sizes add up to more than 900, provided no row is ever inserted with more than 900 bytes of data in those columns. In SQL Server 2005, you can include nonkey
columns in a nonclustered index to avoid the maximum index key size of 900 bytes.
3
Database objects include objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, extended stored procedures, user-defined functions, triggers, rules, defaults, and constraints. The
sum of the number of all objects in a database cannot exceed 2,147,483,647.
4
Although a table can contain an unlimited number of FOREIGN KEY constraints, the recommended maximum is 253. Depending on the hardware configuration hosting SQL
Server, specifying additional foreign key constraints may be expensive for the query optimizer to process.
5
This value is for static lock allocation. Dynamic locks are limited only by memory.
6
If a stored procedure accesses more than 8 databases, or more than 2 databases in interleaving, you will receive an error.
7
If the table contains one or more XML indexes, the clustering key of the user table is limited to 15 columns because the XML column is added to the clustering key of the
primary XML index. In SQL Server 2005, you can include nonkey columns in a nonclustered index to avoid the limitation of a maximum of 16 key columns.
8
SQL Server 2005 supports row-overflow storage which enables variable length columns to be pushed off-row. Only a 24-byte root is stored in the main record for variable
length columns pushed out of row; because of this, the effective row limit is higher than in previous releases of SQL Server.