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By design the components that are aware of the SQL Server memory management mechanisms use the buffer pool for small memory allocations. If the allocation is bigger than 8 KB, these components use memory outside of the buffer pool through the multi-page allocator interface. select      type, ...

Have you ever asked this question about how do I identify the queries that worth tuning? The simple answer it is neither easy or hard to obtain such information if you have managed your SQL Server by deploying industry best practices (wherever possible). Then it comes what kind of practice you should deploy in order to obtain the ...

As most of blogs in this section travels through usage of Dynamic Management Views (DMV) & Dynamic Management Functions (DMF) I have had an email asking What is DMV & DMF and how to find list of them from a SQL Server instance. The internal mechanism of DMV is totally relies on calls to a set of Dynamic Link Libraries that ...

Performance is most required achievement in a multi-user environment, using SQL Server 2005 this can be achieved with a few statments execution. Firstly you need determine the issues by finding which query or queries are causing issues in achieving performance. Using Estimated execution plan option in Query Analyzer in SQL 2000 or Display ...