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SQL Server Memory - what's your method on Configuration and Troubleshooting Issues
01 April 08 02:49 AM | SQL Master | 5 Comments   
Memory - an important aspect of system performance within a RDBMS platform, not specific to a database product or application. Coming to Microsoft related products such as Windows Server and SQL Server so on, various resources available on web such as Read More...
SQL Server error: messages are appearing when the working set of SQL Server 2005 process reaches 50 percent of the memory that is committed to the process.
07 March 08 03:54 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
Have you seen the above message within the SQL Server error logs? If not then no need to worry and make sure to continue your performance monitoring tasks. So when to be concerned! It is evident that SQL Server 2005 component handles memory differently Read More...
SQL Server 2005 memory configuration gotchas
28 December 07 03:44 AM | SQL Master | 5 Comments   
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 Read More...
More than 3GB memory is not used even though boot.ini has these switches on /3GB /PAE /AWE.
23 August 07 02:33 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
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 Read More...
sys.dm_os_schedulers - useful to find on whether your SQL Server engine is weakening!
17 August 07 06:04 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any Read More...
/3GB /PAE and AWE blurb what is it you hear within your environment?
25 July 07 07:06 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   
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 Read More...
"A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in a performance degradation." - what it is about?
24 July 07 01:25 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
Why query execution timeout happens and find queries that have granted memory or waiting on memory?
23 July 07 02:44 AM | SQL Master | 1 Comments   
Have you ever identified the reasons for why and how does a query execution timeout happens within your SQL Server environment. For the beginners I would like to explain that b efore executing a query, SQL Server estimates how much memory it needs to Read More...
SQL Server has encountered % occurrence(s) of IO requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file
13 July 07 03:25 AM | SQL Master | 1 Comments   
By now you should have applied the Service Pack 4 on your SQL Server 2000 instances and you might come across the message within the SQL error log " SQL Server has encountered 5877 occurrence(s) of IO requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete Read More...
A significant part of SQL server process memory has been paged out. This may result in a performance degradation
06 July 07 01:40 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
WIth the recent application of Service pack 2 for SQL Server we tend to see more messages on the log with " A significant part of SQL server process memory has been paged out. This may result in a performance degradation ", its bit confusing and you can Read More...
SQL Server 2005: Stored Procedure call activity statistics & execution time
21 June 07 02:56 PM | SQL Master | 1 Comments   
Is it possible to get statistics like how many times a stored procedure is called such as average execution time and how often that procedure is being called. Bascially it is possible to get provided that particular stored procedure is active and plan Read More...
Handling and troubleshooting memory issues in a SQL Server 2005 instance
19 June 07 02:29 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
We had a major issue on one of the SQL Server instance with the memory and getting following error message intermittenlty: [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (PreLoginHandshake()).]General network error. Check your network documentation. Eventually I was able Read More...
Using PERFMON to get memory counters, what you need to check?
08 May 07 02:17 AM | SQL Master | 1 Comments   
Refer to AWE if you have enabled the AWE in thsi case. Another piece of advice is if this is not a dedicated SQL Server then make sure you have monitoring MemToLeave information too, as it manage the transaction log requirements. Refer to pages/sec counter Read More...

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