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  • September 13, 2017 at 6:33 am

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    Arsh - Wednesday, September 13, 2017 5:33 AM

    Dear Experts,
    I'm trying to figure out if my SQL server is facing any memory pressure . Its a 64 GB memory server with one SQL instance with 50 B max memory. Though the buffer usage stats show that all the databases put together use up around 42 GB , the task manager shows a usage of 56 GB . This is server is dedicated for one instance of SQL server with 7 databases  , only one of them (it uses 34 GB)  is most crucial and much bigger than the others . Not sure what is consuming the additional memory .Any comments on this ? Thank you.

    SQL Server will do its damnedest to pre-allocate all of the memory that it has been allowed to use.  Its not an indication of memory pressure for it to do so.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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