Hmmn the dell Poweredge 1800 server i installed into a surgery recently can
hold 12 gig of ram in its 6 slots.
Not sure what crappy boxes you have been looking at horst :)
And MS SQL can be fine tuned to use less ram like any good DBMS.
Andrew C
> The important bit people generally miss when they do this
> kind of arithmetics is that these figures don't scale.
>
> On 32bit architectures there is a hard limit at 4GB - on most
> mainboards in fact 2GB RAM.
>
> Many people who buy prefabricated ("branded") PCs will
> discover that their memory slots are either already filled
> with (cheaper) RAM modules, or their mainboards only gad 2
> RAM slots to begin with.
>
> So, unless you are prepared to shell out a *complete* PC for
> such bloatware (including the emergency replacement spare for
> it!!) plus swallowing the extra heat dissipation, power
> consumption, noise generation and administrative extra work
> required indirectly by the bloatware, you should rethink your
> strategy.
>
> I don't know about MSSQL - all DBMS systems I know & use
> allow fine tuning of memory allocation if not at run time
> then at least in the startup configuration. But crappy end
> user or middleware applications rarely allow such
> configuration, and poorly written crapware simply grabs
> whatever it can get in terms of resources and the vendors
> then sooth the righteously outraged customers with the
> bullshit argument that "RAM is cheap". Which it only would be
> if it was scalable in that you could add unlimited amounts to
> your system.
>
> Horst
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