
SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition has a theoretical maximum of the operating system maximum of 4GB (more if you are using Enterprise, which we are not). So lets take a walk down memory lane and see what makes SQL Server 2019 better than SQL Server 2000, simply for the perspective of writing and running queries.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 – (Intel X86) Standard Edition I was a bit shocked at this, having seen the evolution of SQL Server over the last 30+ years this question totally confused me. I am afraid to add indexes to this SQL Server 2000 server because I don’t want to be the one who runs it out of disk space, or crosses some memory threshold that bogs down the system.Īfter I told them that I was moving the data to a newer version of SQL Server (2016 or 2019) to do analysis, they asked the question about, why would those newer versions of SQL Server process the query faster, and why would it be easier for me to work on something newer than SQL Server 2000. I was describing how the data that I needed to manipulate on SQL Server 2000 was just too difficult to work with, the table had over 10 million rows, a fairly wide table, and only a couple of indexes that were not being very useful for me.
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Look around at the software you run, the tools you use, and the programs you rely on, how many of those are running on a 22 year old platform without being updated to something newer.

Not often do I admit that I do still occasionally work on SQL Server 2000, and given that we are now in 2022, that makes SQL Server 2000 a 22 year old product. I was working with a client just the other day that has several SQL Server 2000 servers still in mission critical production environments, and a couple of newer versions of SQL Server 2005, 2016, 2019.
