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• Carl Rimmer

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  February 10, 2006 at 3:18 am

  #166849

  I'm looking to rebuild one of our SQL Server 2000 Servers with SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.  I may want to use 2005 SE Clustering capability but was wondering if you still need to install Windows Advanced Server to enable the Clustering?

  I was hoping to install Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and maybe use the Clustering capability in the future.

   

  Regards

  Carl

• Joseph Mulhall

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  February 13, 2006 at 7:17 am

  #620409

  The answer is in the question - you can't cluster SQL server without clustering the operating system.

  Can you cluster Windows 2003 standard edition? No.

  Hope this helps.