Security Compliance

How to set a memory limit for the SQL Server in ARM

This article describes how to set a memory limit for the SQL Express Server in ARM when it runs on the same machine as the ARM Server.

First published date

12/23/2021 4:15 PM

Last published date

2/11/2022 2:56 PM

Overview

The SQL Server is set by default to allocate all the available RAM in the machine
This may cause problems to the application.

Product section

Access Rights Manager

Cause

The SQL Server is set by default to allocate all the available memory on the machine if needed. This may cause problems to the applications hosted in the machine.

Resolution

Set "max server memory" in SQL Server Management Studio
Now we will set the "max server memory" option to limit the memory usage by SQL Server. We can do this by right-clicking on our instance and choosing "Properties":
Apply the changes and restart the ARM-Service on the ARM Server.

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