December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
Type: Advanced, self-configuring
Default values: 2147483647 and 1024
The max server memory option specifies the maximum amount of memory (in megabytes) available to SQL Server. It is used in conjunction with min server memory, and they essentially establish upper and lower bounds for memory allocation. SQL Server uses this memory for user connections, locks, internal data structures, and caching of the data. This is the memory pool described earlier. The default value of 2147483647 for the max server memory option means that SQL Server performs dynamic allocation of memory from the operating system, based on available physical memory on the machine. The default value of 1024 for the min server memory option ...
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