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  • Generically, it doesn't, nor does it really care. The DPT (dirty page table) will be re-created upon recovery. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/… Commented Oct 4, 2022 at 17:20
  • But eventually it needs to write it to the data pages on the disk. I'm trying to understand how sql server knows which data pages are yet to be written to disk in the given scenarios. Commented Oct 4, 2022 at 17:23
  • SQL Server follows the ARIES recovery protocol, like several other systems. It's a bit involved but well documented. Commented Oct 5, 2022 at 7:10