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CanadaDBA

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Posted - 2004-10-07 : 12:41:51
I was looking at the difference between Standard and Enterprise Editions. One of the Enterprise edition feature was “Ability to support more RAM (up to 64GB instead of only 2GB)”.

I have Standard Edition on a server with 3.5GB and EM shows Maximum of 3584MB under Memory tab in SQL Server Properties.

I am confused that Standard Edition is using only 2GB or more on my server. Would you update me?


Canada DBA

biged123456
Starting Member

4 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-07 : 13:54:22
Standard SQL will not use more than 2G of memory (actually more like ~1.7G). EM may show the higher values, but it won't get there in standard. You can verify this in performance monitor. Just poor GUI design I suppose...

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sify
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18 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-12 : 02:54:56
SQL Server Standard Edition will only use 2GB of the RAM on any o.s. Enterprise edition can use upto 64GB on windows datacenter provided AWE is turned on.
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