As usual for every performance issue there are many considerations that need to be evaluated when determining how to investigate the root cause for slower performance of many SQL Server databases. I would suggest that an important consideration is whether to use a 64-bit platform or a 32-bit platform to get the best performance results, though 64-bit platform offers some advantages over the 32-bit platform in this regard. When it comes to hosting databases on 64-bit usage of heterogenous workload...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/x64/archive/2007/08/11/1367.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1367" width="1" height="1">