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She keeps her management studio error to minimal, Southern Style…

It is painful when you have been working on a tough query and you start to get an out of memory error.
“An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown”

What in the world? But it was working before! Why is this happening? Is it happening for everyone? Do I need to reboot the SQL Server?

This is a SQL Server Management Studio Error. Usually it means that you have filled up the local memory cache on your machine. Save all your queries and close Management Studio. Once you open it again you “should” be fine, but famous last words right? If that doesn’t work, just reboot. Nice clean memory and you can get back to playing with your super tough query.

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What you gonna do? Memory, I’m coming for you!

Today I needed to quickly check 68 SQL Server Instances Min and Max memory settings. I didn’t have time to go through each one and I know I will need to do this again in the future. Thank goodness I have my Central Management Server configured with all those servers. I was able to connect to my main CMS server, and run this simple query that will tell me all my servers min and max memory setting:

SELECT ServerName, [Max], [Min]
FROM
(SELECT @@ServerName AS ServerName, LEFT(name,3) AS Memory, value
FROM sys.configurations
WHERE name like '%server memory%') AS SourceTable
PIVOT
(
MAX(Value)
FOR Memory IN ([Max], [Min])
) AS PivotTable;

Then, I also used this code from my last post but added a server name to it so I could see what memory was available on each server. 

SELECT @@Servername,physical_memory_kb * 9.5367431640625E-7
FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info