Thursday, November 1, 2012

Know about your SQL Server memory

Knowing about computer memory management is the basis to learn SQL Server memory architecture. Troubleshooting SQL Server memory is the topic which is not being discussed more often. Last couple of days I spent more time on reading SQL Server memory related articles, blogs and books. In this I got to know about deprecated memory feature used in SQL Server 2008 R2 and previous versions. That is “AWE Enable” option. This feature is no more in SQL Server 2012. I found below posts on SQL Server memory and thought of sharing.

SQL Server 2012 Memory Manager KB articles
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory

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