64-bit SQL Server promises extra headroom
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Microsoft's new 64-bit SQL Server 2000 will help solution providers better serve midsize businesses as well as enterprise accounts, industry executives said. "This database will give you the headroom you need to grow along with the business," said Mike Mitsch, senior marketing director at NEC Solutions America, Boxborough, Mass. "On the hardware side, for example, with a chip upgrade, you can go from 433,000 to 514,000 transactions per minute. That's 20 percent growth."
Indeed, headroom seemed to be the buzzword Thursday at Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and 64-bit SQL Server 2000 launch here. Though much of the event's focus centered on high-end data center applications, 64-bit performance will "lift all ships," said Gordon Mangione, corporate vice president of Microsoft's SQL Server team.