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Tip of the Day: What is a Dirty Page?

Antonios Chatzipavlis

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Business ContinuityInternals & Architecture

Όταν μια σελίδα διαβάζεται από τον δίσκο και μπαίνει στην buffer cache θεωρείται ότι είναι μια Clean Page. Όταν όμως κάνω ένα transaction το οποίο την επηρεάζει (πάντα στην μνήμη) αυτή είναι μια Dirty Page (μπαίνει ένα mark στον header της) καθώς η εικόνα στην μνήμη είναι διαφορετική από αυτή στο δίσκο.

Για να δω πόσες dirty pages έχω ανά βάση αρκεί να εκτελέσω το παρακάτω query που χρησιμοποιεί την sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors

SELECT db_name(database_id) AS 'Database',count(page_id) AS 'Dirty Pages'
FROM sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors
WHERE is_modified =1
GROUP BY db_name(database_id)
ORDER BY count(page_id) DESC

Antonios Chatzipavlis

Antonios is a Data Solutions Consultant and Trainer. He has been working in IT since 1988. In his career, he has worked as senior developer, IT Manager, Solutions Architect and IT Consultant. Since 1995 he has been devoted on new technologies and software development tools, mainly by Microsoft, either by training company staff and colleagues or assisting them in design, development and implementation as a consultant or chief developer. He has focused in Databases and Data Science since 1995. He specialized in Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.0 in areas like SQL Server Internals, Database Design and Development, Business Intelligence and in 2010 he has started working with Azure Data Platform, NoSQL databases, Big Data Technologies and Machine Learning. He is an active member of many IT communities in Greece, answering colleagues' questions and writing articles in his web site. He is the owner of SQLschool.gr which is a community portal with a lot of information about Microsoft SQL Server. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2000. Microsoft honored him as MVP on Data Platform due to his activities in SQL Server since 2010. He holds a large number of Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft SQL Server Certifications since version 6.5.