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carloarango
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15 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-26 : 10:06:23

I have gotten mixed comments on this topic. I have a 64 bit machine running 64 windows 2003 standard and 64 SQL 2005 standard with 8 GB of RAM. We want to upgrade it to 32 GB. What is the best approach to do this? Dynamic or Stattic giving min and max server memory a value ? and if static what value should I use for 32 GB knowing that this box is only being used for SQL.

spirit1
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11752 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-26 : 10:11:51
use dynamic. let sql server handle how much memory it needs by itself.

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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-26 : 10:53:16
If you have multiple instances and especially if it's a cluster, then you should use static.

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rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-26 : 22:35:19
Either case you have to set max memory, leave 2gb for os.
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