You manage a database for a mission-critical web application. The database is stored on a SQL Server 2012 instance and is the only database on the instance. The application generates all T-SQL stateme

Disabling 'scan for Startup Procs' prevents stored procedures from running at startup, which has negligible impact on buffer pool memory since the application already uses no stored procedures.

'Allow Triggers to Fire Others' controls whether triggers can cascade to fire additional triggers and has no effect on memory allocation or data cache size.

A contained database stores user authentication credentials and metadata within the database itself, reducing the need for SQL Server to cache system database pages from master and other system databases in the buffer pool. With only one database on the instance and no stored procedures, eliminating cross-database metadata dependencies maximizes the buffer pool memory available for caching application data pages.

'Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads' reduces plan cache usage for single-use queries, but with a single database and no stored procedures the dominant memory gain comes from reducing system metadata dependencies via contained databases rather than plan cache management.