Max sizes in Sql server

Maximum Sizes/Numbers
Object	SQL Server 7.0	SQL Server 2000	SQL Server 2005 (32-bit)
Batch size	65,536 * Network Packet Size1	65,536 * Network Packet Size1	65,536 * Network Packet Size1
Bytes per short string column	8,000	8,000	8,000
Bytes per text, ntext, or image column	2 GB-2	2 GB-2	2 GB-2
Bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY	8,060	8,060	8,060
Bytes per index	900	9002	9002
Bytes per foreign key	900	900	900
Bytes per primary key	900	900	900
Bytes per row	8,060	8,060	8,0608
Bytes in source text of a stored procedure	Lesser of batch size or 250 MB	Lesser of batch size or 250 MB	Lesser of batch size or 250 MB
Bytes per VARCHAR(MAX), VARBINARY(MAX), XML, TEXT, or IMAGEcolumn	N/A	N/A	2^31-1
Characters per NTEXT or NVARCHAR(MAX) column.	N/A	N/A	2^30-1
Clustered indexes per table	1	1	1
Columns in GROUP BY, ORDER BY	Limited only by number of bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY	Limited only by number of bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY	Limited only by number of bytes per GROUP BY, ORDER BY
Columns or expressions in a GROUP BY WITH CUBE or WITH ROLLUP statement	10	10	10
Columns per index	16	16	167
Columns per foreign key	16	16	16
Columns per primary key	16	16	16
Columns per base table	1,024	1,024	1,024
Columns per SELECT statement	4,096	4,096	4,096
Columns per INSERT statement	1,024	1,024	1,024
Connections per client	Maximum value of configured connections	Maximum value of configured connections	Maximum value of configured connections
Database size	1,048,516 TB	1,048,516 TB	1,048,516 TB
Databases per instance of SQL Server	32,767	32,767	32,767
Filegroups per database	256	256	32,767
Files per database	32,767	32,767	32,767
File size (data)	32 TB	32 TB	16 TB
File size (log)	4 TB	32 TB	2 terabytes
Foreign key table references per table4	253	253	253
Identifier length (in characters)	128	128	128
Instances per computer	N/A	16	16
Length of a string containing SQL Statements (batch size)	65,536 * Network packet size 1	65,536 * Network packet size 1	65,536 * Network packet size 1
Locks per connection	Maximum locks per server	Maximum locks per server	Maximum locks per server
Locks per instance of SQL Server	2,147,483,647 (static) 40% of SQL Server memory (dynamic)	2,147,483,647 (static) 40% of SQL Server memory (dynamic)	Up to 2,147,483,6475
Nested stored procedure levels6	32	32	32
Nested subqueries	32	32	32
Nested trigger levels	32	32	32
Nonclustered indexes per table	249	249	249
Objects concurrently open in an instance of SQL Server3	2,147,483,647 (or available memory)	2,147,483,647 (or available memory)
Objects in a database	2,147,483,6473	2,147,483,6473	2,147,483,6473
Parameters per stored procedure	1,024	1,024	2,100
Parameters per user-defined function	1,024	1,024	2,100
Partitions per partitioned table or index	N/A	N/A	1,000
REFERENCES per table	253	253	253
Rows per table	Limited by available storage	Limited by available storage	Limited by available storage
Statistics on non-indexed columns			2,000
Tables per database	Limited by number of objects in a database3	Limited by number of objects in a database3	Limited by number of objects in a database3
Tables per SELECT statement	256	256	256
Triggers per table	Limited by number of objects in a database3	Limited by number of objects in a database3	Limited by number of objects in a database3
UNIQUE indexes or constraints per table	249 nonclustered and 1 clustered	249 nonclustered and 1 clustered	249 nonclustered and 1 clustered
XML indexes	N/A	N/A	249