awe

Can AWE use >4GB RAM on SQL Server 2005 dev edition on Windows XP 32-bit

Using SQL Server 2005 developer edition on Windows XP pro (32-bit) I notice that the check box to enable AWE (Advanced Windowing Extensions) is enabled. I have an Opteron workstation that I could easily upgrade to 8GB or more, although it is not practical to move off 32-bit Windows XP Pro for the development environment. As far as I ca...

Data Storage with AWE Memory via collections / lists / other containers

Does anyone have any suggestions (product, toolsets, methods or other) for the storage and processing of custom data (delphi collections, binary trees, DIContainers etc) that DOES NOT restrict itself to a standard win32 memory address space? To put that in the extreme, is there anything off the shelf that can do the equivalent of holdin...