Hello,
I just migrated my accounting system to a new SQL Server deployment of the software.
We just purchased the expensive SQL Server enterprise to accomodate.
I have some replicated databases to of lower priority that I put on the same instance that we occasionally query. I also imported a 70GB old archive DB that we on very rare occasions. We are not concerned about performance on these databases as we are about the accounting DB on the same instance.
The MAX memory was set to unlimited on that instance. As soon as I put in this monster 70GB archived databases the AWE memory usage used up my full 30GB of RAM.
Is there a way to set the memory usage so the archive databases do not get loaded into the AWE but still the critical accounting system DB on the same instance is taken care of?
Or do I have to shell out another $3-6k for a separate instance? SQL Server Express has a 4GB limitation and one of the backup DB we don't really care about is 20GB replicated from Azure.