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markpringle
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Posted - 2011-07-20 : 10:45:04
Because of the limits of shared hosting, I had to logically divide my growing MS SQL Server 2008 database into two databases. This has worked fine on shared hosting. However, I've now outgrown shared hosting and am moving to a VPS provider. I no longer have database size limitations. Should I consolidate back to one database? I can think of good reasons to do that, but don't know if having two databases logically divided has its advantages (maybe performance?). Help!

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robvolk
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Posted - 2011-07-20 : 11:02:31
There's no performance advantage by having 2 databases, at least nothing you couldn't reproduce in a single database. It's up to you and how much work would be involved in consolidating.
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markpringle
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Posted - 2011-07-20 : 12:40:11
quote:
Originally posted by robvolk

There's no performance advantage by having 2 databases, at least nothing you couldn't reproduce in a single database. It's up to you and how much work would be involved in consolidating.



Thanks, it's much more work to consolidate, so I'd like to avoid that.

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