Can i know the Sql 2000 ent able to support the Itanium2 64bit i hv been test the sql2000 ent to installing in the itanium2 server while setup time was stack half way and i has checking with my supplier ECS technical, according them the itanium server are not able to support provided upgrade to Sql 2005 ent 64bit did any 1 can help me on this cos i was confiusing.

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Can i know the Sql 2000 ent able to support the Itanium2 64bit i hv been test the sql2000 ent to installing in the itanium2 server while setup time was stack half way and i has checking with my supplier ECS technical, according them the itanium server are not able to support provided upgrade to Sql 2005 ent 64bit did any 1 can help me on this cos i was confiusing.

there is a version of sql2000 specifically for Itanium. As for sql 2005, there are the x86, x64 and itanium version.

You cant run 32-bit SQL 2000 inside native 64-bit Itanium Server (even with SQL 2000 sp4)

Your are required to get the MS SQL 2008 64-bit /MS SQL 2005 64-bit.

You may run 32-bit SQL 2000 ent SP4  on Xeon EMT64 thru WOW64 emulation, i believe there is performances trade off & RAM limitations on SQL. (I'm asumed u re using Windows 2003 R2 x64 edition) Strongly not recommend.

 Your choice will be below , since SQL 2008 rtm still new =)

SQL 2005 EE in 64bit native on IA64

SQL 2005 EE in WOW64 (32bit emulation) on x64

SQL 2005 EE in 32bit on x86

More info about theMS SQL2000 SP4 can be found here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898042

 

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