Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your response.

As far as number of users, I will the only user; however, the data will be
at least 10GB before expansion.

I will use it for personal. Therefore, I have a very limited budget.

Unfortunately, Access nor SQL Express would not do the job due to size of
data.

Thanks.

"Stefan Hoffmann" wrote:

hi,

On 06.04.2010 17:09, Accesshelp wrote:
I am sure this place is a right place to ask questions on SQL Server.
You should ask this question in one of the microsoft.public.sqlserver.*
groups.

I need a database with at least 100GB capacity.
My current plan is to buy a $500 desktop computer for the purpose of
hosting
the SQL Server.
While such a computer can handle such a database, the question is 'How
will it perform?'. So what kind of database is it, how many concurrent
users do you have, how much I/O is involved?

If you can share with me how I can get started and how much it will cost me,
I would be greatly appreciated.
$500 + license fee for SQL Server 2008 Standard...


mfG
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