Kendal Van Dyke (3/31/2010)
That said we are seeing a massive boost from running SQL2008 64 bit on W2K8.
I'm guessing that's in part dueto the rewritten network stack in Windows 2008. There's a great whitepaper that talks about that:
Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008
Very interesting - thanks!
I'm now curious if anyone has scene a performance boost with LAN replication between SQL 2005 and SQl 2008. We use replication (Transactional - Push) to off-load our reporting jobs and queries, but everything is local. We're currently on SQL 2005 SP3 EE 64bit running on Windows Server 2008. I'm wondering if we'd see better replication throughput if we went to SQL 2008.