DIsk quotas

Hello,

I am investigating setting up a shared sql server. I wish to enforce
database size quotas, and hopefully still allow customers to manage
the creation of their own databases.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Simon Hall"Simon Hall" <itguy@.xtrahost.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I am investigating setting up a shared sql server. I wish to enforce
> database size quotas, and hopefully still allow customers to manage
> the creation of their own databases.
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
> Kind Regards
> Simon Hall

CREATE DATABASE is usually restricted only to administrators, to prevent
someone grabbing all the disk space. One solution might be a custom database
creation/resizing request tool, which could be a web form or whatever. That
would allow you to check a request against other information (eg. billing
status) before processing it, either manually via a DBA or in some automated
way (perhaps using SQLDMO).

Alternatively, when you set up a new client, just create a database with the
largest size you want to allow them, although since different clients may
have different requirements in terms of transaction log use and recovery
models, it may not be that simple.

There may well be other solutions using genuine disk quotas (ie. in the OS,
in SAN software, a commercial app etc.), but since the MSSQL service runs as
one user account, I'm not sure how a quota could be linked to a specific
login/client. Unless you could do something where a single client's files
are all in one folder, then manage that folder. But you'd still probably
need some sort of custom tool in that case to handle new requests and assign
more space if needed.

Simon