One User database servicing multiple application databases

Question

I am administering a rather large database that has grown in complexity and design from a single application database. Now there is a plan to add a fifth application that ca

Answer 1

A few urls for you. Scale out implementations can vary wildly to suit requirements but hopefully these can help you.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlcat/archive/2008/06/12/sql-server-scale-out.aspx

this one is 2005 centric but is VERY good http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479364.aspx#scaloutsql_topic4

this one a good solution for reporting... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345584.aspx

given you an analysis services one too :) http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2010/06/08/scale-out-querying-for-analysis-services-with-read-only-databases.aspx