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SQL Server 2005 memory configuration gotchas

Published 28 December 7 4:44 AM | SSQA.net

This may be last post in Performance Tuning & Security blog section here for this year!! Most of this year in the forums & newsgroups I have seen a common question asking about memory configuration within SQL Server 2005. As you may be aware that...

Filed under: sql server, performance, memory, security, applications, best practice, awe, pae, dynamic, 3gb, benchmarking, performance monitoring, settings

More than 3GB memory is not used even though boot.ini has these switches on /3GB /PAE /AWE.

Published 23 August 7 4:33 AM | SSQA.net

Yet another AWE memory settings blog post here that I'm posting for the issues we have had recently. Before going into details review about 3GBPAE blurb here and also refer to this KBA274750 to enable more than 2GB memory within your SQL Server Enterprise...

Filed under: sql server, performance, memory, security, windows, edition, enterprise, instances, awe, pae, 3gb

/3GB /PAE and AWE blurb what is it you hear within your environment?

Published 25 July 7 9:6 AM | SSQA.net

You might have come across a situation to have a better understanding on what /3GB or /PAE switch means that are referred in documentations and forums you go on. I will try my best to give you the notes what I have understood so far in this regard. From...

Filed under: sql server, performance, management, memory, microsoft, security, server, windows, awe, /3gb, pae

"A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in a performance degradation." - what it is about?

Published 24 July 7 3:25 AM | SSQA.net

As you might come across this BlogPost here but still there are more doubts to be cleared on the reasons for granting Lock Memory in Pages option to the SQL server instance. There is still lot of confusion over there to check whether lock memory in pages...

Filed under: performance, memory, msdn, security, schema, lock, pages

What events will cause a flushing of plan in cache?

Published 14 May 7 7:17 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

We already know that using DBCC FREEPROCCACHE will have the affect of flushing all the cache with immediate affect and also DBCC FREESYSTEMCACHE (new in SQL 2005) has similar affect but will flush the plans asynchronously that are marked as unused anymore...

Filed under: sql server, management, memory, security, perfmance, plan, cache