This post is part of the monthly community event called T-SQL Tuesday started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and hosted by someone else each month. This month the host is Sankar Reddy (blog|twitter) and the topic is Misconceptions in SQL Server. You can follow posts for this theme on Twitter by looking at #TSQL2sDay hashtag. Next to SQL Server ...

I guess this could be considered a continuation of my last post about SQL Server Memory, Understanding the VAS Reservation (aka MemToLeave) in SQL Server, but for a long time I have noticed that when people don’t understand how SQL Server uses memory on their server, they immediately begin to think that SQL Server has a memory leak.  So in ...