title: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit
body: <p>I think the size limit of the database is causing problems with our eCommerce website. </p>
  
  <p>I was looking at the errors in Event Viewer on the server and the vast majority of errors I see belong to <code>MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS</code> and throw up :  </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 10240 MB per database.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I checked the size of the database and got 38402.44MB (38.4GB) - it only has .20MB free space.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to find out if I need to upgrade the database ?</p>