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May 23, 2006 07:23 PM

64-Bit Advantages

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Michael Otey
SQL Server Magazine
InstantDoc ID #49937
Microsoft's announcement that Exchange Server 2007 will be a native 64-bit application requiring a 64-bit OS and hardware platform is part of a growing 64-bit migration. For SQL Server customers this migration might seem like a huge change. Before SQL Server 2005, only the significantly more expensive Itanium-based systems supported 64-bit. However, the widespread adoption of the newer 64-bit x64 architecture and Microsoft's native x64 versions of Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 Enterpri...

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My company has both 64-bit (Itanium) and x64 installs of SQL 2000. The X64 environment has outperformed the Itanium hands down. Based upon our experience I would not recommend running SQL 2000 on an Itanium (Linux/Oracle? maby). When we tried dual core CPUs on the Itanium we saw the performance degrade 33% compared to the single-core and we couldn't find anyone who could say why.

Our migration to SQL 2005 is dependent upon our ERP vendor certifying their product is ready.

johnl123 6/8/2006 11:59:57 AM

It's SQL 7.0 that we launched in Nov 1998, not version 47.0

pwehland 5/31/2006 3:21:23 PM

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