Entirely agreed. There is no point doing any more 32bit windows or Oracle installs (unless you really like being hamstrung by a combination of 32bit addressable memory and the thread based architecture on windows. Niall On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oracle 32bit seems to be certified on Win 64bit (at least according to > MOS) but I see no reason in going that route, especially "because I > heard there are some issues". Like what kind of issues? > > Just go 64-bits. > > Note that 10GR2 download for 2008/Vista is separate from the "other" > windows releases. My guess would be that it should work on 2008 R2 as > that's just an incremental update to 2008. Note that R2 comes in > 64-bit flavor only (as 32-bit server hardware has been unavailable for > quite some time now that's unlikely to impact you). > > Memory limits can be found here: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx > > -- > Alex Fatkulin, > http://afatkulin.blogspot.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfatkulin > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info