{"id":1105,"date":"2005-08-08T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2005-08-08T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T20:12:00","slug":"sp4-might-slow-down-your-single-instance-of-sql-server-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2005\/08\/08\/sp4-might-slow-down-your-single-instance-of-sql-server-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"SP4 might slow down your single instance of sql server 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">if&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/default.asp?url=\/library\/en-us\/memory\/base\/address_windowing_extensions.asp\">Address Windowing Extensions<\/A>(AWE) has been enabled&nbsp;on a single instance of sql server 2000, after applying SP4, you got to apply .2040 hotfix as well, otherwise your SQL server instance only uses <STRONG><U>50% of the available physical memory <\/U><\/STRONG>that sucks:).<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><EM><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">1) <STRONG>run the following script from SQL Query Analyzer to determine if AWE is enabled&nbsp;on the server<\/STRONG><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><STRONG>&nbsp;:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">sp_configure &#8216;show advanced options&#8217;, 1<BR>go<BR>reconfigure<BR>go<BR>sp_configure &#8216;awe enabled&#8217;<BR>go<BR><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>If <B>run_value<\/B> is set to 1, AWE is enabled on the server.<\/FONT><BR><\/P><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">2) BTW <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">After applying the SP4, just make sure that it has been installed properly as I\u2019ve heard that some broken installations of SP4 are not reported properly. Run the following query in Analyzer and you should get the following results.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/SPAN><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><STRONG>Query in Query Analyzer:<o:p><\/o:p><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/I><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(&#8216;productversion&#8217;)&nbsp;<BR>SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(&#8216;productlevel&#8217;)<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><STRONG>Result after applying SP4:<o:p><\/o:p><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/I><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">8.00.2039&nbsp;<BR>SP4<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><STRONG>Result after applying SP4 and its hotfix :<o:p><\/o:p><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">8.00.2040&nbsp;<BR>SP4<\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if&nbsp; Address Windowing Extensions(AWE) has been enabled&nbsp;on a single instance of sql server 2000, after applying SP4, you got to apply .2040 hotfix as well, otherwise your SQL server instance only uses 50% of the available physical memory that sucks:). 1) run the following script from SQL Query Analyzer to determine if AWE is enabled&nbsp;on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}