Thus, the was born: a developer’s ticket to testing enterprise-scale memory addressing (up to 64GB of RAM or more theoretically) without paying enterprise licensing fees.
: Only the core Relational Engine, SQL Agent, and Analysis Services (OLAP/Data Mining) were native 64-bit. Most client tools remained 32-bit x86 programs. SQLServerCentral Key Features & Capabilities ms sql server 2000 developer edition 64 bit