Got an email to inbox asking a resolution for : I can't find a remedy for this problem on Google either. Any help would be appreciated. When performing the data mining cube process - Error: Memory error: Allocation failure : Not enough storage is available to process this command. For the error text it looks like the system is unable to fine disk ...

Yet another AWE memory settings blog post here that I'm posting for the issues we have had recently. Before going into details review about 3GBPAE blurb here and also refer to this KBA274750 to enable more than 2GB memory within your SQL Server Enterprise edition instance. Coming to the problem on a server having 6GB RAM and having required ...

The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any CPU bottleneck in the SQL Server machine. SELECT ...

Is 64 bit means more memory? Yes, to be precise. Microsoft has been investing heavily on X64 bit and within couple of years there will be no more development on 32-bit applications, as per the recent road map. So within 32-bit application it is one of the reason that memory has been a constraint on scaling-up server capacity. Once you consider ...

As usual for every performance issue there are many considerations that need to be evaluated when determining how to investigate the root cause for slower performance of many SQL Server databases. I would suggest that an important consideration is whether to use a 64-bit platform or a 32-bit platform to get the best performance results, though ...

Integration with .NET framework CLR within SQL Server gives extra flexibility for the developers to use other programming languages such as C# or VB.net by creating functions, stored procedures, triggers, data types, and aggregates are among the kinds of business logic that programmers can write with these languages. But think about performance ...

You might have come across a situation to have a better understanding on what /3GB or /PAE switch means that are referred in documentations and forums you go on. I will try my best to give you the notes what I have understood so far in this regard. From the available documentation on Technet & MSDN it is pretty informative that : The /3GB ...

As you might come across this BlogPost here but still there are more doubts to be cleared on the reasons for granting Lock Memory in Pages option to the SQL server instance. There is still lot of confusion over there to check whether lock memory in pages option must be set on SQL 2005 and not very clear from Books online information on the ...

Have you ever identified the reasons for why and how does a query execution timeout happens within your SQL Server environment. For the beginners I would like to explain that b efore executing a query, SQL Server estimates how much memory it needs to run and tries to reserve this amount of memory from the buffer pool. If the reservation succeeds ...