Comments on: SQL SERVER – Data Pages in Buffer Pool – Data Stored in Memory Cache

By: DBA Reddy

DBA Reddy — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:34:29 +0000

Hi Mickey, try this query on the instance you want to change,

SP_CONFIGURE ‘SHOW ADVANCED OPTION’,1
RECONFIGURE
SP_CONFIGURE ‘min server memory (MB)’, 8192
RECONFIGURE

..check this if it helps and reply me,

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:10:13 +0000

I have one system running two instances of 2008 R2. I want to dedicate 8GB of memory to the buffer pool on one of the instances. Is there a way to set this in SSMS? via a script? Thanks in advance…

By: Chiranjib Saha Roy

Chiranjib Saha Roy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:32:56 +0000

Hi,
You are very interesting. I have learnt a lot from you… thanks for providing such kind of useful article with example. I have one query(question). Is SQL Server hold such kind of technology like soft parse (included in Oracle). Waiting for your reply. Thanks in advance.

By: Seth Lynch

Seth Lynch — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:33:04 +0000

Nice one Pinal – this is exactly the scrpt I was looking for to try and sort out some memory issues

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:55:12 +0000

If an index shows up in the results of that query, are all pages from the index always contained in the buffer cache, or might there only be a fraction?

By: Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:58:07 +0000

@neeraj What exactly you are looking is

you want all data in cache is that possible? think logically man,

If so then it has copy again into the cache to display it to you

thats burden .

You need to run this script check any queries related to result are running if they causing problem.

Thanks,

By: Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:55:07 +0000

Hey Pinal,

This is good script which is useful for me.

Thanks,

By: Neeraj Verma

Neeraj Verma — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:57:52 +0000

hi
Nice articles, thank for this post, but I am waiting your next article where you will show “what data are cached and those that are not cached”

By: koteswarrao

koteswarrao — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:52:17 +0000

iam new to DBA…and i want to know if a user make a transation whether data first reside in the buffer pool or T-log file……….

as per my knowledge it first reside in the buffer pool and lazy writer scans the buffer pool,if it finds the dirty pages it will forces the dirty pages to t-log and phsyical data file i.e disk…………is iam right?

if iam wrong plz let me the process of data storage.

By: kucing

kucing — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:47:15 +0000

Thanks for this post. I wondered about this a long time ago but I finally find the answer from you.