RE: Here's a chance to voice your opinion on 64-bit databases.....

Not exactly an objective assessment.  I find it curious that the main
touted benefit of a 64-bit operating system is that it will be able to
address much greater chunks of main storage.

I hardly find the concept that 'loading a multi-gigabyte database into
multi-gigabytes of main storage will result in snappier response times'
surprising.  Duh!

I don't follow the internal techno-battles with a lot of intelligence,
but surely there is more to 64-bit computing than keeping lots of stuff
in RAM.

Perhaps with the price differential between Intel-based memory and
iSeries memory, Microsoft may be able to market this feature in a way
that would be cost-prohibitive on the iSeries.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse


> Subject: Here's a chance to voice your opinion on 64-bit
databases.....
>
> Take a peak at this.....
>
> MICROSOFT 64-BIT SQL SERVER GETS CLOSER
>
> Here's one bit of news on the 64-bit version of SQL Server, code-named
> Liberty: More than one thousand beta testers are tinkering with it
now.
> This speedy database specializes in decision-support,
> data-mining and other applications. Microsoft hopes the 64-bit product
> paired with the Windows.NET operating system, will be the action that
> speaks louder than the words in Microsoft's anti-Unix campaign.
>
> You can read the article as well as supply feedback at...
>
>
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=3435
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