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SQL Consolidation Planning and recommended practices - Team blog of MCS @ Middle East and Africa - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Consolidation strategies
SQL server consolidation can be achieved mainly through one of the below strategies:

Virtualization: using a single physical machine to host multiple virtual machines (VMs) running Microsoft® SQL Server® data management software
Multiple Instances: using a single machine to host multiple SQL Server instances,
Multiple databases: using a single instance of SQL Server to host multiple databases
Each of these strategies has different advantages and disadvantages related to security and compliance requirements, high availability and disaster recovery requirements, resource management benefits, level of consolidation density, and manageability tradeoffs"

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