SQL 2005 shows wrong cpu type

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Paulo Ferreira - 31 Oct 2007 15:09 GMT

Hi,
i just want to check if i could have any problems in the future with this.
The thing is that i've installed a sql 2005 enterprise 64 bits on a windows
2003 enterprise R2 64 bits, with Intel x64 cpu.
But when i check on the sql instance properties it shows that the platform
is NT AMD64.

Did i do something wrong on the instalation or this is something to ignore?

thanks in advance

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Razvan Socol - 31 Oct 2007 17:37 GMT

> i just want to check if i could have any problems in the future with
> this. The thing is that i've installed a sql 2005 enterprise 64 bits
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> Did i do something wrong on the instalation or this is something to
> ignore?

I believe you should not worry about this. The x64 architecture was
developed by AMD and this time it's Intel who has adopted something
made by AMD, not the reverse (as we were used until now). The
architecture that Intel originally made for 64-bits is IA-64, but it is
used only for Itanium CPU-s (and it is very different from the x64
architecture). Therefore, it is understandable that the platform for an
Intel x64 CPU is named "NT AMD64", just as the platform for an older
AMD CPU is "NT INTEL X86".

For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

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