An effort was made to shore up the Open Door in 1921-22 at the Washington Naval Conference, but a challenge was again mounted by the Japanese in the 1930s as they expanded their control in Manchuria. China would not be recognized as a sovereign state until after World War II.
The maximum number of connections across SQL Server versions and editions is 32,767. You can determine how many connections SQL Server currently has by looking at:
Maximum table capacity in SQL Server 2008. I have an application which inserts more than 1 billion rows annually into a table. This table contains some varchar and bigint columns and one blob column as well. The 1 billion rows consist of history data which are kept for tracking purpose.