Removes all clean buffers from the buffer pool.
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS [ WITH NO_INFOMSGS ]
- WITH NO_INFOMSGS
-
Suppresses all informational messages.
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS returns:
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
Use DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS to test queries with a cold buffer cache without shutting down and restarting the server.
To drop clean buffers from the buffer pool, first use CHECKPOINT to produce a cold buffer cache. This forces all dirty pages for the current database to be written to disk and cleans the buffers. After you do this, you can issue DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS command to remove all buffers from the buffer pool.
Requires membership in the sysadmin fixed server role.
Reference
DBCC (Transact-SQL)
CHECKPOINT (Transact-SQL)
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