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How to check Lock Pages In Memory is enabled?

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You can use below simple technique to check whether lock pages in memory is enabled or not. If lock pages in memory is enabled you can see the “Using locked pages for buffer pool” message in the SQL Server error log.

exec xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'locked pages'

To check if it is disabled. You have to check for the “Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) requires the ‘lock pages in memory’ privilege which is not currently present in the access token of the process.” message.

exec xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'lock pages in memory'

How much memory is used by each database in SQL Server?

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A large percentage of the memory of SQL Server instance is consumed by buffer pool. You can find out the database which consuming more memory using below query.

SELECT
    CASE WHEN database_id = 32767 THEN 'Resource DB' ELSE DB_NAME (database_id) END AS 'DBName',
    COUNT (1) AS 'Page Count',
    (COUNT (1) * 8)/1024 AS 'Memory Used in MB' ,   
   CASE WHEN is_modified = 1 THEN 'Dirty Page' ELSE 'Clean Page' END AS 'Page State' 
FROM sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors
   GROUP BY [database_id], [is_modified]
   ORDER BY   db_name(database_id)
GO

Script to get the CPU and Memory Information

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You can execute the below script to get the processor and memory information.

-- Scritp to get Processor Info from Registry
EXEC xp_instance_regread
'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
'HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0',
'ProcessorNameString';

-- Script to get CPU and Memory Info
SELECT 
 cpu_count AS [Number of Logical CPU]
,hyperthread_ratio
,cpu_count/hyperthread_ratio AS [Number of Physical CPU]
,physical_memory_in_bytes/1048576 AS [Total Physical Memory IN MB]
FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info OPTION (RECOMPILE);