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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

by Kalen Delaney, Sunil Agarwal, Craig Freedman, Ron Talmage, Adam Machanic
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 52m
English
Microsoft Press
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The Plan Cache

It’s important to understand that the plan cache in SQL Server 2005 is not actually a separate area of memory. Releases prior to SQL Server 7 had two effective configuration values to control the size of the plan cache, which was then called the procedure cache. One specified a fixed size for SQL Server’s total usable memory; the other specified a percentage of that memory (after fixed needs were satisfied) to be used exclusively for storing procedure plans. Also, in releases prior to SQL Server 7, query plans for adhoc SQL statements were never stored in the cache, only the plans for stored procedures. That is why it was called procedure cache in older versions. In SQL Server 2005, the total size of memory is by default dynamic, ...

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