SQL Server Client Tools Setup Fails due to MSXML 6

If you are trying to install SQL Server 2005 client tools and continuously getting failure message because of MSXML 6 installation which already exists on your machine then it may be due to the corrupted installation of MSXML 6 which blocks the installation of client tools. You can fix it as follows:

Go to Control Panel-> Administrative Tools->Add Remove Programs and try to remove it. If it removes smoothly then just install the Client Tools as before and you are done. 

OR

If you found that you are unable to uninstall the MSXML 6 because of some wiered error then you need a tool called Windows Install Clean up from here

Donwload it and remove the corrupt installation of MSXML 6. Once removed, you can now install the Client tools as usual.

How to use more than 4GB RAM on SQL Server?

SQL Server is an highly optimized and well tuned piece of code. It try to utilise Operating System resources as optimum as possible. Due to this, most DBA think that if they will increase RAM on the server then SQL Server will automatically start using it, right? Wrong, SQL Server can only use RAM more than 4GB if and only if,

• You are running Enterprise Editions of Windows 2003 Servers orAdvanced/Datacenter version of Windows 2000
• You have enabled Operating System to use the extra RAM you have installed. Please check here for the details and how to do it.
• You are not running Express or Workgroup version of SQL Server. Please check here for further details about limitations in different versions of SQL Server
• you have enabled awe enabled option and set max server memory to the maximum memory you can allocate to SQL Server. This is applicatiable for 32 but versions of OS and not required in 64 bit version of Windows servers. Please check here for further details and how to configure the memoryfor SQL Server