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SQLSACT
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:51 AM
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Hi all

I have a quick question regarding pages moving from disk into memory

If I select * from a table, are all pages that make up the table and indexes moved into memory?

So any subsequent query against that same table would not need to go to disk at all?

Thanks
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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:15 AM


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SQLSACT (9/25/2012)
Hi all

I have a quick question regarding pages moving from disk into memory

If I select * from a table, are all pages that make up the table and indexes moved into memory?

So any subsequent query against that same table would not need to go to disk at all?

Thanks

for select * there is no index and yes, all data pages would be cached into memory

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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:19 AM


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SQLSACT (9/25/2012)
Hi all

I have a quick question regarding pages moving from disk into memory

If I select * from a table, are all pages that make up the table and indexes moved into memory?

So any subsequent query against that same table would not need to go to disk at all?

Thanks

for select * there is no index and yes, all data pages would be cached into memory


Doesn't it depend on there being space for the whole table in cache?
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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:22 AM


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SQLSACT (9/25/2012)
Hi all

I have a quick question regarding pages moving from disk into memory

If I select * from a table, are all pages that make up the table and indexes moved into memory?

So any subsequent query against that same table would not need to go to disk at all?

Thanks

for select * there is no index and yes, all data pages would be cached into memory


Doesn't it depend on there being space for the whole table in cache?

yes of course, otherwise spill will happen

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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:21 AM
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SQLSACT (9/25/2012)
Hi all

I have a quick question regarding pages moving from disk into memory

If I select * from a table, are all pages that make up the table and indexes moved into memory?

So any subsequent query against that same table would not need to go to disk at all?

Thanks

for select * there is no index and yes, all data pages would be cached into memory


Doesn't it depend on there being space for the whole table in cache?

yes of course, otherwise spill will happen


Thanks

Spill?
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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:19 PM


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Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:47 PM
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Thanks

So if a query is submitted to SQL and the pages need to be brought into memory from disk and there is not enough memory to accomodate those pages, SQL pushes is into tempdb, right?

Does is just push the pages that wouldn't fit in memory into tempdb or does it fulfill the entire transactions pages?

Is this where memory pressure in SQL server comes from?

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Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:16 AM


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The buffer pool never spills to TempDB.

If pages are read in from disk for a table and there's not space in the buffer pool, other pages will be removed from it, maybe even pages of the same table that have already been read by the query processor.

What spills to tempDB are sorts, hashes, exchanges, spools (though they're temp structures anyway, so they can't exactly be said to spool).
Temp tables will be written to TempDB if necessary

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SQLSACT (9/25/2012)
So if a query is submitted to SQL and the pages need to be brought into memory from disk and there is not enough memory to accomodate those pages, SQL pushes is into tempdb, right?


No. If pages are needed in memory and there's not enough space in the buffer pool, other data pages will be removed from the buffer pool to make space. The algorithm that is used to determine which pages to evict is roughly an LRU-2, but there are complexities and cases where pages can be removed from cache immediately after they are read in and used.

It is entirely possible, for a scan of a large table on a server with little memory, for the pages of that table to be read in, the rows on those pages processed by the query processor and then those pages removed from memory to make space for more pages from the same table.

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Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:01 AM


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