In this short article i will share a simple query that i wrote to find the number of pages of a database in the buffer pool and there usage of the buffer pool

SELECT CASE database_id WHEN 32767 THEN 'ResourceDb'
ELSE DB_NAME(database_id)
END AS [Database],COUNT(*) AS PageCount ,
( COUNT(*) * 8.0 ) / 1024 AS [SpaceOccupiedInBuffer-Mb]
FROM sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors
GROUP BY database_id
ORDER BY 3 DESC

Tagged: Buffer Pool, Data pages, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL