A SQL Server Query Plan Memory Grant Bug?

Yes, That’s A Question


I have no idea if this is a bug or not, but I thought it was interesting. Looking at information added to spills in SQL Server 2016

SQL Server Query Plan

If you open the linked-to picture, you’ll see (hopefully) that the full memory grant for the query was 108,000KB.

But the spill on the Sort operator lists a far larger grant: 529,234,432KB.

This is in the XML, and not an artifact of Plan Explorer.

Whaddya think, Good Lookings? Should I file a bug report?

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2 thoughts on “A SQL Server Query Plan Memory Grant Bug?

  1. Did you ever figure this one out? I tried to figure out howSQL even calculated that number but I am at a loss.

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