Taming the Tempdb Tempest – WI SQL Server Virtual User Group, 22 Apr 2011

Thanks to the Wisconsin Virtual SQL Server User Group for letting me talk about tempdb today! The slides and demo queries are attached. Once the recording is available I will update this blog with a link to it. Taming the Tempdb Tempest Summary: ·         Multiple data files of the same size, one log file ·        Continue reading “Taming the Tempdb Tempest – WI SQL Server Virtual User Group, 22 Apr 2011”

Compilation of SQL Server TempDB IO Best Practices

It is important to optimize TempDB for good performance. In particular, I am focusing on how to allocate files.   TempDB is a unique database in several ways. The ones most relevant to this discussion are: ·         It is often one of the busiest databases on an instance. This means the performance of TempDB isContinue reading “Compilation of SQL Server TempDB IO Best Practices”

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