Craig Le Clair from Forrester Research posted an interesting article last week, (I was on vacation skiing so oddly enough I didn't read it until this week). In it, he suggests that the upper limit on a SQL 5 installation running on a 64 bit architecture is about 500GB - oddly enough 5 is the average number of drinks I had each night when I was on vacation last week, there were 64 runs on the ski slopes and I fell over exactly 500 times on vacation last week. I suspect that Microsoft will not agree with these numbers but in truth they are pretty realistic, I really did limit my drinking, go to a big resort and fall over a lot ;=)

Seriously though..I am sure that Microsoft will dispute the 500GB limit so I'd like to propose an informal pole, (not a ski pole which I used last week on vacation). Do you have more that 500GB running somewhere and if so - what is your architecture?

Did I mention that I was on vacation last week?