"Priming" a whole database in MSSQL for first-hit speed
- by David Spillett
For a particular apps I have a set of queries that I run each time the database has been restarted for any reason (server reboot usually). These "prime" SQL Server's page cache with the common core working set of the data so that the app is not unusually slow the first time a user logs in afterwards.
One instance of the app is running on an…