AWE has removed from SQL server 2012

October 18, 2011

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AWE has removed from SQL server 2012

AWE has removed from SQL server Denali onwards. Say bye bye to 32 bit servers. To use more than 4GB memory you have to buy 64 bit servers.

A small organization may suffer because of this feature has removed from the next version.

For more look the following links

SQLOS Team’s post : SQL Server Memory Manager Changes in Denali

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/sqlos_team/archive/2011/01/04/sql-server-memory-manager-changes-in-denali.aspx

MS’s post : Features Not Supported in the Next Version of SQL Server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx

Muthukkumaran

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4 Comments

Perry

October 18, 2011 at 7:53 pm Reply

This is good to use 64 bit servers in the morden world it has lots of advantages.I don’t think they will suffer.
- Muthukkumaran kaliyamoorthy
  
  October 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm
  
  i agree with you.
  
  Thanks perry
- Ram
  
  October 19, 2011 at 3:44 pm
  
  Muthu,
  
  Thanks for the info. You didn’t inform the website redirection.After saw you in FB i have got it.
  
  good job. keep it up.
- Muthukkumaran kaliyamoorthy
  
  October 19, 2011 at 8:07 pm
  
  Ram thanks man. I sent a mail to our guys i think your name may be missed.
  I am planing to write a post about the redirection in my blogspot.