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SQL Server 2005 PERFMON counter spikes in Transactions/sec and Buffer Cache Hit ratio, what does it say?
14 March 08 02:16 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   

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 can Read More...

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How to find dirty buffer pages and clear them - SQL Server
21 May 07 08:22 AM | SQL Master | 0 Comments   

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 )method. Read More...

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