bad performance due to drivers?

Do you know if there are any performance issues using a sql server 3.70 driver on an application server versus using a 2000 version driver? The DB is on a server with SQL Server 2000 EE. We have four application servers and 2 have 2000 drivers (and window
s SP4) and the other 2 have 3.70 drivers (and windows SP3) and the ones with the 3.70 drivers keep getting timeouts. CPU and memory usage doesn't seem very high - does anyone know what else to monitor to see what could be affecting performance? Thanks.
One way to analyze the performance issues in your 7.0 environment would be
to enable SQL Server profiler and capture the execution plan, show plan
statistics, Started and completed events for RPC, SQL and Batch. We can
compare the results to SQL 2000.
Other factors (other than drivers) that could contribute to the
differences in the performance in the two environments are;
- SQL Server 2000 vs 7.0
- Data differences in the two environments
- Application differences
- Maybe network related issues
If you require assistance in analyzing the profiler data please contact
Microsoft Support.
HTH
Agnes Panosian
SQL Server Support
|||Here are some references that may also help
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/dnsql7/html
/msdn_sql7perftune.asp
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