Microsoft KB Archive/138298

= INFO: Visual SourceSafe System Capacities and Specifications =

Article ID: 138298

Article Last Modified on 8/30/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q138298



SUMMARY
This article contains information concerning the system capacities of Visual SourceSafe.

NOTE: All capacities are related to versions 4.0 and 5.0 of Visual SourceSafe unless otherwise noted.



General Specifications & Limits
 Users running Visual SourceSafe concurrently: Unlimited. Files and projects in a SourceSafe Database: approx. 4 billion. Files and projects directly in a single project: 8191 (however, for performance reasons, Microsoft recommends that there be no more than a few hundred files in a single project). Nested project Depth: 15 (this is a recommended limit. You may add more than 15 projects, but Microsoft only supports nested projects 15 levels deep). Bytes in a file:

Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 64 megabytes.

Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 2 gigabytes.

Log file: 2 gigabytes.

 Lines in the Windows View Command: 64,000. Versions in a file or project history: 32,767 (the count on a project history does not include file Updates in that project).</li> Bytes in the Windows history display: 32,767.</li> Lines in a project history: 8191.</li> Files correlated in a project history: 8191.</li></ul>

String Lengths
<ul> Project Path (for example, $/Word/Spelling): maximum length 257 characters (including the $/).</li> Filename: 255 characters (all platforms except MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows). A short (8.3) name is also stored for compatibility with the FAT file system. Names are not case sensitive.</li> Username: 31 characters.</li> Password:

Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 15 characters.

Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 31 characters.

</li> File or project Label: 31 characters.</li> String to scan for when using "Find in Files": 63 characters.</li> Line in the SS.ini file: 511 characters.</li> Length of a checkout comment: 63 characters.</li> Length of a check in or label comment:

GUI = 4095 characters

Command Line = 511 characters

</li></ul>

Additional query words: vbwin 4.00 5.00 Windows 95 vss limitation capacity

Keywords: kbinfo kbfaq KB138298

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