The federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEWR) recent upgrade of the back-end of its online services portal to Microsoft's 64-bit SQL Server 2005 database hit only one hitch -- ...

When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company's bid to oust Oracle and ...

Installing SQL Server on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit is not as simple as it appears Most of my test servers are still 32-bit machines. It’s not until recently that I have started to use 64-bit ...

Is the 64-bit Wintel era close at hand? To find out, I compared performance of 64-bit Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 to the 32-bit versions of the same software, using similarly configured ...

The same day the Windows 7 beta was released, the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta went public as well, and the same goes for the Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program. Server 2008 R2 will be the first ...

One of the interesting tidbits coming out of Microsoft's annual WinHEC conference this year is that Windows Server 2008 (and its accompanying service packs, natch) will be Microsoft's last 32-bit ...