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Yes, but you may experience slower performance<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906892" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906892</a>
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Yes, but you may experience slower performance
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906892 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906892]

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A little bit of expansion on your answer might have been nice...but thanks for the help! 
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A little bit of expansion on your answer might have been nice...but thanks for the help!

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I am a network admin for a 50-user firm. I am building a new SQL 2005 server in anticipation of installing new accounting software. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950, 64-bit. The operating system is Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, x64 Edition. I do not expect that the demand on this database will be very high. <br />
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Can I install SQL 2005 32-bit on this server, or do I have to install 64-bit SQL software since the OS is 64-bit? <br />
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I'm guessing that I can still run 32-bit software on my 64-bit OS, but I want to be sure before I mess anything up. Thanks in advance!
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I am a network admin for a 50-user firm. I am building a new SQL 2005 server in anticipation of installing new accounting software. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950, 64-bit. The operating system is Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, x64 Edition. I do not expect that the demand on this database will be very high. 

Can I install SQL 2005 32-bit on this server, or do I have to install 64-bit SQL software since the OS is 64-bit? 

I'm guessing that I can still run 32-bit software on my 64-bit OS, but I want to be sure before I mess anything up. Thanks in advance!

Can I install SQL 2005 32-bit on Windows Server 2003 64-bit?

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.