How is SQL Server using all that memory, anyway

Ref : http://colleenmorrow.com/2011/05/02/how-is-sql-server-using-all-that-memory-anyway/

I want to stick with the subject of memory because I think it’s probably the most misunderstood (and sometimes downright mysterious) component of SQL Server. I know I, for one, could benefit from a better understanding of its inner workings. So today I’d like to share that little bit of code I mentioned last week, that I find very handy for getting an overall picture of how memory is being used by a SQL instance. Personally I run it as a complete script, but I’ll break it down here and provide a little description of each section. I should say, too, that I didn’t write any of this from scratch. For most of it I started with code found here, here, and here, and modified it to suit.
So, without further ado, let’s get started. The first section provides an big-picture look at how SQL is currently allocating memory between the database page cache, procedure cache, and miscellaneous memory usage. It also provides the total memory usage, and I added in the maximum available workspace memory.

--HOW MUCH MEMORY IS MY SQL SERVER USING?   declare @plan_cache_size float, @obj_data_size float , @avail_workspace_size float   -- plan cache size   select @plan_cache_size = (cntr_value*8)/1024.0 FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters     WHERE object_name like '%Plan Cache%' and counter_name = 'Cache Pages' and instance_name = '_Total'   -- DATABASE PAGE CACHE (PAGES, INCLUDING INDEXES)   select @obj_data_size = (cntr_value*8)/1024.0  FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters     WHERE object_name like '%Buffer Manager%' and counter_name like 'Database pages%'   -- Maximum workspace available for sorts, hashes, etc   select @avail_workspace_size = (cntr_value)/1024.0 FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters     WHERE object_name like '%Memory Manager%' and counter_name = 'Maximum Workspace Memory (KB)'   -- CACHE TOTALS select   @obj_data_size [Database_Page_Cache_MB]  , @plan_cache_size [Procedure_Cache_MB]  , [Misc_Memory_Usage_MB]  , [Misc_Memory_Usage_MB] + @obj_data_size + @plan_cache_size [Total_Memory_Usage_MB]  , @avail_workspace_size [Maximum_Workspace_MB] from (  select sum(cntr_value)/1024.0 [Misc_Memory_Usage_MB]  from sys.dm_os_performance_counters  where object_name like '%memory%'  and (    counter_name like '%Connection Memory (KB)%'    or    counter_name like '%Granted Workspace Memory (KB)%'    or    counter_name like '%Lock Memory (KB)%'    or    counter_name like '%Optimizer Memory (KB)%'    or    counter_name like '%SQL Cache Memory (KB)%'  ) ) x GO

The output:

The next section uses sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters to examine how the procedure cache is being broken down.

-- How the Procedure cache is being used   SELECT  TOP 6     LEFT([name], 20) as [name],     LEFT([type], 20) as [type],     ([single_pages_kb] + [multi_pages_kb])/1024 AS cache_mb,     [entries_count] FROM sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters order by single_pages_kb + multi_pages_kb DESC

The output:

The third part of the script goes deeper into the procedure cache and displays the top 25 cached plans by size. Because it displays some application code, I’m not going to include the results here.

-- Top cached plans by size   select top 25 cacheobjType , ObjType , (pagesUsed * 8192)/1024.0/1024.0 [space_used_MB] , db_name(dbid) [database_name] , object_name(objid, dbid) [object_name] , 1 from master..syscacheobjects (nolock) order by pagesUsed desc GO

And, finally, the last section shows us how much of the buffer pool is being utilized by each database, including the dirty and clean page counts, sorted by total memory.

-- Buffer Pool Memory Per DB   SELECT (CASE WHEN ([database_id] = 32767) THEN 'Resource Database' ELSE DB_NAME (database_id) END) AS 'Database Name', SUM(CASE WHEN ([is_modified] = 1) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS DirtyPageCount, SUM(CASE WHEN ([is_modified] = 1) THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) AS CleanPageCount, count(*)AS TotalPageCount, cast(count(*) * 8192.0 / (1024.0 * 1024.0) as decimal(8,2)) as BufferPoolMB FROM sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors GROUP BY database_id ORDER BY TotalPageCount desc GO

And the output: