Database – how many databases can a single server handle

databasescalability

I heard that in general, you don't see a single server running sqlserver having more than 100-150 databases on it.

Is this the same case with mysql or postgres?

Best Answer

number of databases is an irrelevant measure. It's more to do with the number of user connections, the query load & the size of the database.

According to this SQL Server can have 32,767 databases attached to it. You probably won't see this in production, but it is possible!