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gangadhara.ms
Aged Yak Warrior

549 Posts

Posted - 2010-06-15 : 23:53:20
Dear All,

I recently took the Full time Production DBA job and will actively involving in production DB maintanace.
I need help in getting exactly amount of RAM memory SQL server is using.

Also if we have 32GB of RAM how do we enable to maximum utilization of RAM with SQL server for better optimal performance.

It would be great if experianced person who already did this operation in production environment.

Thanks,
Gangadhar

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-06-16 : 00:54:34
Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit SQL? How about Windows? How many CPUs do you have? Do you have "lock pages in memory" granted to the SQL Server service account?

Tara Kizer
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gangadhara.ms
Aged Yak Warrior

549 Posts

Posted - 2010-06-16 : 02:15:57
We are using 32-Bit and we are using Windows server 2003 and we are using 8 dual core processor.
How to check "lock pages in memory" grant ??
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sodeep
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7174 Posts

Posted - 2010-06-16 : 10:28:05
Check for Total Server Memory and Target Server Memory Counters for RAM utilization by SQL Server.

As Tara said, You need to enable 'Lock pages in Memory' and Enable AWE and Set Min/MAX for Memory Settings in Server Properties in 32-bit System.
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