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Jegan<br />
Thanks for the detailed steps which is very helpful. If you yourself were doing the above on a 3-4 node cluster (with one passive), how much time would you estimate? for simplicity, we'll say there will be 4 databases on the active nodes each 100GB.
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Jegan
Thanks for the detailed steps which is very helpful. If you yourself were doing the above on a 3-4 node cluster (with one passive), how much time would you estimate? for simplicity, we'll say there will be 4 databases on the active nodes each 100GB.

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Haven't done earlier myself..<br />
But my approximate estimation would be around 2-3 days ( worst case scenario)<br />
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Note: It also depends upon the skill set of the person you have for doing this up-gradation and my estimation is for a medium level skilled person.
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Haven't done earlier myself..
But my approximate estimation would be around 2-3 days ( worst case scenario)

Note: It also depends upon the skill set of the person you have for doing this up-gradation and my estimation is for a medium level skilled person.

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what needs to be considered and thought through for upgrading a 32 bit SQL Cluster to 64 bit?<br />
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Can you please share your experience on this?<br />
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any link or resource you come across on the above will be useful too.<br />
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Thanks
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what needs to be considered and thought through for upgrading a 32 bit SQL Cluster to 64 bit?

Can you please share your experience on this?

any link or resource you come across on the above will be useful too.

Thanks

upgrade 32 bit SQL Cluster

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