SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension part 3: system monitoring

Forrards
March 18, 2023

In this article I’d like to tell about monitoring tools available in SQL Server 2014 to evaluate the performance of Buffer Pool Extension.

First of all there is a system view sys.dm_os_buffer_pool_extension_configuration that provides information on the configuration of BPE. It shows whether BPE is enabled or not, the location of the file and its size. Although the specification says that there may be several BPE files it is impossible to open all, at least in CTP1. Maybe later the situation will change.

What is more, the column is_in_bpool_extension is added to the system view sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors, which allows to get information on separate pages. This means now you can get a list of separate pages across databases with regard to how many pages and which ones are stored in the BPE. For example, here is a query allowing you to see the percentage of database pages stored in memory and in BPE.

Forrards
March 18, 2023
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