Hi this is interesting.

I looked at a database today, the DB is around 4gb in size, running on a physical box.

It has a single database, 8 CPU and 16Gb of...

Mani is correct,

If you use SQL Express for what it is meant for - e.g a small web application database then the underlying OS is not likely to make any...

One area that has improved in Vista and I believe 2008 is the network stack. The tcp networking should be faster. So in theory large network transfers - or if...