Anyone here using MSDE with Vault?
Is this a good solution for a 10-20 C++ developer team?
My main concern is the 2gig size limit...
Stephan
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I would be interested to hear from others as well, to see what size of teams use MSDE.
The general answer, though, is that it isn't so much the size of the team as it is the size of the files and the frequency with which they are updated. Vault stores only deltas from one version to the next, so it also depends on the size of your changes.
One thing to keep in mind is that while Vault is very good at storing binary files compared to VSS, changes in binary files tend to have much larger deltas than do text files, and will cause your database to grow faster. This is only a problem for the 2 GB limit - SQL Server can easily handle large files and large deltas.
The general answer, though, is that it isn't so much the size of the team as it is the size of the files and the frequency with which they are updated. Vault stores only deltas from one version to the next, so it also depends on the size of your changes.
One thing to keep in mind is that while Vault is very good at storing binary files compared to VSS, changes in binary files tend to have much larger deltas than do text files, and will cause your database to grow faster. This is only a problem for the 2 GB limit - SQL Server can easily handle large files and large deltas.