You can specify ELEVATE=YES in your connection string so that automatically started database server executables are elevated.
This allows non-elevated client processes to start elevated servers automatically, which is necessary on Windows Vista because
non-elevated servers cannot use AWE memory. This parameter is ignored if the database server is not started automatically.
You must specify the -cw option when starting the database server command to use an AWE cache.
The following connection string fragment causes database servers that are started automatically to be elevated on Windows
Vista so that they can use an AWE cache:
Syntax