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Increased RAM, Worse Performance

Setup: Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 240GB RAM TempDB is 8x16GB data files w/out auto-grow (128GB total) Physical/Stand-alone Server This server is used for ETL processing. We ...
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SQL Server gets slow over time until we have to restart it

We have a database with a mixed OLAP/OLTP workload. The queries are quite ad-hoc and are dynamically created in the mid-tier application server. When we start the server, the performance is quite ...
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SQL Server - Anyone use SUMA, trace flag 8048, or trace flag 8015?

Recently included SQL Server startup Trace Flag 8048 to resolve a serious spinlock contention issue in a SQL Server 2008 R2 system. Interested to hear from others who have found usage cases where ...
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Plan Cache Pages by Database in SQL Server 2008R2

Is it possible to get a break down of how many plan cache pages are being used per database? Perfmon seems to only have the total for the server, but maybe there is a DMV with more detail? Also, does ...
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Is it important to release memory back to the server?

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance running on a production system. I'm not a DBA; I'm more a developer, but my client is currently asking me: How important is it to release memory from SQL Server ...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Memory

I am running MSSQL 2008 Enterprise and in the configuration of the server the Max memory amount is set to 2147483647 MB. My Question is, the server has 192 GB of ram,the number in the config can't be ...