Cause When the tempdb database is heavily used, SQL Server may experience contention when it tries to allocate pages. Depending on the degree of contention, this may cause queries and requests that ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

This topic provides details about the configuration and use of the tempdb database in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Each internal object uses a minimum of nine pages: an IAM page and an ...

For many DBAs performance is a huge problem. I know I've currently got systems that have their bottlenecks. One of the bottlenecks in a lot of SQL Server systems is in tempdb. There were a lot of ...

I am contributing to the effort of optimizing our SQL 2000 server where I work. The downside is--I'm a novice (but quickly learning) when it comes to SQL 2000 tuning. One of the areas that I want to ...