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How wide is it?

I was tooling around Microsoft SQL server in preparation for a 64 bit migration when I came across this interesting command.

xp_msver

It returned the following for my Intel box.

1    ProductName    NULL    Microsoft SQL Server
2    ProductVersion    589824    9.00.4035.00
3    Language    1033    English (United States)
4    Platform    NULL    NT AMD64
5    Comments    NULL    NT AMD64
6    CompanyName    NULL    Microsoft Corporation
7    FileDescription    NULL    SQL Server Windows NT – 64 Bit
8    FileVersion    NULL    2005.090.4035.00
9    InternalName    NULL    SQLSERVR
10    LegalCopyright    NULL    © Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
11    LegalTrademarks    NULL    Microsoft® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows(TM) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
12    OriginalFilename    NULL    SQLSERVR.EXE
13    PrivateBuild    NULL    NULL
14    SpecialBuild    264437760    NULL
15    WindowsVersion    248381957    5.2 (3790)
16    ProcessorCount    1    1
17    ProcessorActiveMask    1                   1
18    ProcessorType    8664    NULL
19    PhysicalMemory    7935    7935 (8320720896)
20    Product ID    NULL    NULL

Interesting to see that it reports an AMD CPU.  Checking with Google, it appears that AMD beat Intel to the 64 bit arena, as such got frozen in programming history. link

Update  19 Apr 11
I was wondering if any of my dark servers can take a 64 bit OS.  This very nifty tool from VMware  does a width check. Link

Update 24 Jul 11
The SQL version numbers reported above are not friendly to non-SQL gurus.  This command helps a bit.

 Select @@version

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – 9.00.4035.00 (X64)   Nov 24 2008 16:17:31   Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation  Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

 

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