In this post, I am sharing a script to perform PINTABLE and UNPINTABLE in SQL Server.

Using PINTABLE, we can keep data in the data cache of SQL Server which boosts the speed of query execution.

Once you PINTABLE in the data cache, it doesn’t load the whole table but it keeps only required a portion of the table.

If you have enough size of the data cache, you can try this option for a frequently used table.

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PINTABLE:

DECLARE @DBID INT, @TableID INT 
SET @DBID = DB_ID('DatabaseName') 
SET @TableID = OBJECT_ID('DatabaseName.SchemaName.TableName') 
DBCC PINTABLE (@DBID, @TableID)

UNPINTABLE:

DECLARE @DBID INT, @TableID INT 
SET @DBID = DB_ID('DatabaseName') 
SET @TableID = OBJECT_ID('DatabaseName.SchemaName.TableName') 
DBCC UNPINTABLE (@DBID, @TableID)