As we mentioned before here, Exchange 2003 SP2 brings us increased database size limits for Exchange 2003 Standard servers with SP2 installed. There is more here than meets the eye, however, and I ...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Jonathan,
By default, after SP2 is installed, your Configured limit will be 18 GB but you will start getting warning events at around 16GB. If you want to change that, the configured limit should be increased.
However, if you check your online defrag events (should get them every night) - you will see how much "white space" there is in the DB now. If this is a large number (few GBs for example) - then your DB file might grow more than 16 or 18GB in size and things will still work even with default setting, because we now take into consideration only actually USED space rather than the space of the actual database file.
As was metnioned: "Size check done against the database now uses logical database size. Empty space in the database will not count against the configured database size limit..."
By default, after SP2 is installed, your Configured limit will be 18 GB but you will start getting warning events at around 16GB. If you want to change that, the configured limit should be increased.
However, if you check your online defrag events (should get them every night) - you will see how much "white space" there is in the DB now. If this is a large number (few GBs for example) - then your DB file might grow more than 16 or 18GB in size and things will still work even with default setting, because we now take into consideration only actually USED space rather than the space of the actual database file.
As was metnioned: "Size check done against the database now uses logical database size. Empty space in the database will not count against the configured database size limit..."