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Should I run full version of SQL?

brent.ritchie over 20 years ago

Hello, we are just in the process of putting together costs to impliment Orion SLX and the question if we should look at a full version of SQL instead of the run-time inculded should be used. My question to the group is what benifit would we gain from running the full version, are there any limitations to the run-time?

thanks, if you don't mind how much memory are people putting in there server too?

thanks,
Brent

0 Woodzy over 20 years ago

Only 512MB right now, but bumping it up to a 1GB on the weekend. My server runs just fine with 512 but RAM is cheap right now, so why not.

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0 skrause over 20 years ago

The 2GB size limit is the only one I am aware of. We purchased the SLX version to monitor only 350 nodes and 1300 interfaces and we quickly ran into the 2GB limit. After only a couple of weeks of data collection we had to re-index every day to keep it below 2GB. When we did re-index though, it did compress the DB from 2GB to about 350MB.
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0 MrSNMP over 20 years ago

Since you're purchasing the SLX I would definitely recommend a full version of SQL Server. The MSDE version that SolarWinds ships has a 2GB database size limitation. Depending upon how many elements you're planning to monitor and how often you plan to collect statistics your database could reach this limit rather quickly. -HTH
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0 brent.ritchie over 20 years ago

Thank you all for your input, I will be requesting a full version of SQL be added to the request

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