> Is anyone here successfully running SQL Server 6.5 in a Windows 2000
> Server??
> We tried to and had some runtime problems relative to tempdb.

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> (cdavis10717@comcast.net) writes:
> > Is anyone here successfully running SQL Server 6.5 in a Windows
2000
> > Server??
> > We tried to and had some runtime problems relative to tempdb.
>
> I seem to recall that it is supported, provided that you have SP5a of
> SQL 6.5.
>
> But I have to admit that I once attempted to install SQL 6.5 on Win
2000
> Pro, and I wasn't successful. When you say it, it might have been an
> issue with tempdb. In my case, the problems occurred already during
> installation.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/productdoc/2000/books.asp

> Thank you. Yes, the running SQL Server 6.5 choked on tempdb. And even
> starting sql server in minimal mode failed since tempdb would not
> allocate in RAM. Oh, well, we are going back to SQL 6.5 on NT until we
> can determine the databases that must be upgraded or dropped.
> thank you again.