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 Many database causes performance problems ?

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MrBean
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Posted - 2003-01-08 : 03:46:36
I administrating a SQL Server 2000 which contains 20+ databases.

Somehow the SQL Server service suddenly allocates a lot of RAM even thought the databases are not in use by any users or jobs - why ?

This problem causes the server to come to an almost complete halt sometimes.... very strange !

Any ideas what causes this problem ?


/MrBean

nr
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Posted - 2003-01-08 : 03:57:49
The server will checkpoint each of the databases in turn so the more databases the more it has to do (at least it used to do it like this) - wouldn't think it would cause what you are seeing though.

Try running the profiler to see what is happenning.

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MrBean
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Posted - 2003-01-08 : 07:11:01
Ok thanks, I'll try to check the profiler next time the problem occures.

But I just find the problem strange - does more databases require more memory even if there are no extra users or activity ?


/MrBean
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