Hi guys ELSE gals, I am not an expert on the server stuff and need some advice / thoughts. Our SQL database keeps the RAM pegged at 97% (the CPU is at 6%.) The guy that has been taking care of the servers says this is normal.
My question is just simply if this is a true statement or not?
"MS SQL will always seize all available RAM so the server will always look like its RAM is pegged, no matter how much RAM you install"
If not, how do you throttle MS SQL RAM usage? Or can someone help me understand how MS SQL uses RAM?
IDON'Twant to go down the road of what hardware do you have, what are you trying to do, etc. This is a general question about SQL RAM usage... However, here are my hardware highlights AMD Opteron 2.20 / 2 processors, 8GB RAM, 64bit Server 2008 R2 standard running in a WMware box with currently no other VMs on the...