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:
Yesterday I explained what IAM chains are and how they correspond to indexes in SQL Server 2000. A table can have a heap or clustered index, plus up to 249 non-clustered indexes, plus storage for LOB values (commonly called the text index). This means that in SQL Server 2000, there can be a maximum of 251 IAM chains per table. In SQL Server 2005, IAM chains and IAM pages are exactly the same, but what they correspond to is different. A table can now have up to 750000 IAM chains!