Dear experts,
For easy management, our company want to set the visual sourcesafe to each project own a database.
So, is there a max number of database can be created in visual sourcesafe
and visual sourcesafe should support simultaneously running multiple database, am I right
Finally, would numerous databases (say over 40) deteriorate the performance much
Thanks all.
Max number of sourcesafe database?
M. R. Miller
Yes, VSS supports multiple databases. There is no max number of databases you can create.
The databases are just files/folders stored on Windows file shares, and VSS only track the database location through strings stored in registry so the performance doesn't deteriorate at all. You can have only one database open at a time (but you can open multiple instances of VSS Explorer and open a different database in each of them, if needed).
Alin
rjschave
There is no (reasonable) max number of databases you can create. The only thing here to keep in mind is that one solution can not have projects from different VSS databases and still have them all SCC managed. You can add a project that is checked into another database but you'll be prompted to remove bindings from that project if you already have project in the solution checked into another database.
SourceSafe works with one database at a time (You can have multiple instances of SourceSafe Explorer or VS accessing different databases).