One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of ...

INCLUDE sql-server-2019] introduces a new feature that's part of the in-memory database feature family: Memory-optimized TempDB metadata. This feature effectively removes this bottleneck and unlocks a ...

SQL Server Temp DB Performance Test Tool Introduction During testing we have discovered a potential bug in SQL Server 2017 when using the TEMP DB table. Under sustained load in the tempDB for 12 hours ...

If your application uses the tempdb database a lot, and causes it to grow larger than its default size, you may want to permanently increase the default size of the tempdb file to a size closer to ...

I have a SQL 2000 SP4 server and MOM 2005 is reporting that the tempdb database log file is getting to large. Sure enough, it the templog.ldf file is a little over 9GB in size.I honestly don't ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored in the Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. How are transactions used? Transactions allow you to group SQL commands into a single unit.

Microsoft debuted SQL Server 2019 at Ignite, but a more technically detailed picture of the next-gen database platform emerged only later at the PASS Summit.