What Are Dirty Pages and Clean Pages in SQL Server?

Senior MS SQL

Answer

Dirty pages: modified in buffer pool but not yet persisted to disk.
Clean pages: identical to the disk version.

Checkpoints convert dirty pages to clean pages. Too many dirty pages increase recovery time and degrade performance.

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