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  • 1.  Limititations of sql express?

    Posted Feb 05, 2008 09:26 PM

    Hey guys,

    Allright, question, going off of the below thread, it looks like sql express with vc 2.5 is a poor choice because the agent is not present and daily tasks don't get summed up to weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs. But is this the only downfall of sql express or are there other things that are missing. What else is missing? I got points!

    http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119906

    Respectfully,

    Matthew

    Kaizen!



  • 2.  RE: Limititations of sql express?

    Posted Feb 05, 2008 09:33 PM

    Hi - this link here has all it's features and limitations (max 4GB database etc).

    And here are some more limitations from the below link......

    -- No built-in management tools. Microsoft has a query tool called Express Manager that is available as a separate download, but as of this writing, it is an unsupported pre-release package.

    -- Support for only 1 CPU. In systems with multiple CPUs, Express will only bind to one CPU at a time, and it cannot run queries in parallel.

    -- 1 GB RAM. Express cannot use more than 1 GB of RAM at a time for queries and data pages. The program's own memory footprint is not counted.

    -- 4 GB maximum database size. No one database in Express can be larger than 4 GB, but there is no limit on the number of databases you can use in Express.

    -- No analysis or reporting services. Data mining, Data Transformation Services (DTS) and reporting functions are not available for Express.

    Other functions not available in Express include clustering or mirroring, full-text indexing or searching, SQLMail, indexed views, partitioned views and SQL Agent.

    Message was edited by: java_cat33



  • 3.  RE: Limititations of sql express?

    Posted Feb 05, 2008 09:34 PM

    It's limited to 1 CPU and 1 GB RAM which isn't necessarily a problem, but more of an issue is that it limits the db size to 4 GB. And that would be 4 GB of data. The data and transaction log files can total to larger than 4 GB.



  • 4.  RE: Limititations of sql express?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 27, 2008 12:53 PM

    This is not the limitation of VirtualCenter 2.5. Feature does not depend on the Database choice.

    The failure you see is beacuse the database upgrade is incomplete.

    This can be corrected



  • 5.  RE: Limititations of sql express?

    Posted Feb 27, 2008 03:45 PM

    If the SQL Agent is not installed on this version, how is that correctable?

    Respectfully,

    Matthew

    Kaizen!



  • 6.  RE: Limititations of sql express?
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 28, 2008 11:22 AM

    http://communities.vmware.com/message/872051

    The absence of SQL Server agent in this case is covered by VirtualCenter periodically taking care of statistics rollup process.