just backup and restore will fix any performance problem?

  • just backup and restore will fix any performance problem?. One person in my office claiming that applican performacne issue is resloved by just backup the database and restore the database. is that ture? thanks in advance.

  • No.

    What that will do is clear the plan cache which might temporarily alleviate any problems caused by poor plans, but it certainly won't fix those problems, just hide them for a little while.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

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