Hi,

I am trying to determine what the overhead is per database in SQL
Server 2000 Standard. I have the option to put several customers in one
database, or give each customer their own database. I would like to put
each customer in their own database to simplify maintenance and
strengthen security.

I have found the following document which shows the memory used by
various objects in SQL Server:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ar_ts_8dbn.asp

Based on this info I get the following *additional* memory requirements
per database:

Open Database (1 file, 1 filegroup): 6k
Open Objects (250 objects, 30 indexes): 692k
Total: 698k

Is this an accurate calculation of the overhead? Is there something
else that would affect the overhead that I am overlooking? Are there
any other downsides to having many databases versus a few databases?

Thanks,
Mike