Having a Single DataBase for Group of projects

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Adly Wagih - 27 Oct 2004 13:17 GMT

Hi All,
What is better to have a sigle database in VSS for each new project or group
multiple projects in a single database.

What are the Pros and Cons of each standard?

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Roman Golovin [MSFT] - 29 Oct 2004 16:52 GMT

I'd recommend to have one database as long as you can keep it under 3-4 GB
in size during the life of projects stored in the database. You can archive
your database cutting old history out of it if you need to.

Having projects stored in the same database allows you to share these
projects (or perhaps some files form these projects) in one solution. On
another hand if database becomes too big (10GB+) it can be hard to maintain
(running analyze, archiving etc can be slow)

Roman Golovin [MSFT]

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> Hi All,
> What is better to have a sigle database in VSS for each new project or
> group
> multiple projects in a single database.
>
> What are the Pros and Cons of each standard?

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