Posted by Rick Brandt on 11/20/06 12:54

David wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just asked some people to help me out and phone microsoft with the
> following information, kindly they refused unless we setup a support
> contract with them first, for pre-sales information. (That really does
> not sound like good business sense to me - anyway here is our problem,
> if anyone could help thanks).
>
> "To tell and ask microsoft:
>
> We will be setting up a microsoft sql server 2000 instance running on
> a windows 2003 server.
>
> 1) We need to check this can run alongside a microsoft 2003 sql server
> (either workgroup or standard edition), on the same machine. Are there
> any .dll clashes if we do this? If there are can we run SQL Server
> 2000, in a virtual machine running windows 2000 professional. (I have
> a licenced copy we can use for this).
>
> 2) If we run one instance of 2000, and one of 2003 of the sql servers,
> can one use the processor licence model, and one use the CAL licence
> model."
>
> Thanks for any help, and any idea why they actually force you to use
> news groups for pre-sales information?
>
> David

I can't answer the license question, but we ran both SS2K and SS2K5 on a single
server for several months. We just had to use a non-default named instance for
the second instance installed. That means you cannot refer to the non-default
instance by IP address.

Other than being a bitch to later remove the 2K instance and switch the 2K5
instance to the default instance name we had no issues.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

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