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SQL Server 2005 PERFMON counter spikes in Transactions/sec and Buffer Cache Hit ratio, what does it say?

Published 14 March 8 4:16 AM | SSQA.net

Recently I was involved in one of the Performance Audit exercise at a client's place where they complain about Server CPU is always HIGH and what they have observed is even the physical disk where TEMPDB is located has been used extensively, as they...

Filed under: sql server, perfmon, performance, dmv, cache, buffer, sysmon, tempdb, monitoring, temp tables, worktables, workfiles, ratio

SQL Server 2005 TSQL to obtain buffers by object (table, index) in the buffer cache?

Published 1 February 8 6:30 AM | SSQA.net

As a programmer interacting with SQL Server's cache is not often needed, but when you do need to determine what is going on with the cache, or you simply need to flush the execution plans or data pages to tune a query, you now have the means to do...

Filed under: sql server, indexes, memory, dmv, cache, buffer, table, tsql, configuration

How to find dirty buffer pages and clear them - SQL Server

Published 21 May 7 10:22 AM | SSQA.net

Dirty buffer pages are nothing but consuming more memory for even smaller queries on the SQL Server. By default the DBA shouldn't worry about these dirty pages in the buffer pool as they are taken care by the system using Write Ahead Logging ( WAL...

Filed under: sql server, memory, databases, blocking, dmv, buffer, dirty