Symptoms
Assume that you have many databases (for example, 1,000 databases) in a single instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or 2017. You may notice that memory usage is greater when you compare it to memory usage in earlier versions of SQL Server.
Resolution
This fix is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2017
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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