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tempdb logs on same drive as tempdb data or with other logs?

For many reasons I only have 3 hard drives (RAIDed and in an Always-On AG) for all my database files: D: Data E: Logs F: Tempdb Should the tempdb log file go on F: with the data file(s) or on E:? ...
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How to determine cause of runtime increase given two query plans with SpillToTempDb warning

Two actual query plans were captured for two executions of one query: Plan "Fast" took ~1s and occurs about 90% of the time. Plan "Slow" took ~16s. Since the graphical plans look ...
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Best practice for tempdb log file

I have read many blogs here and there about how to configure tempdb data files but i didnt found any information regarding the tempdb log file. Here's the strategy that I'm presently using with my ...
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Moving one TempdB on 3 instance server

I have a large virtualized SQL Server (Full 2008R2). I run 3 SQL instances and would like to relocate the TempdB database file to another location, splitting off from the TempdB log file. The trouble ...
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When REBUILDing indexes on SQL Server, what bearing does tempdb & LOG disk speed have?

Say I have the a data disk that is 50x faster than the LOG and tempdb (measured by Random Write speed) disk. (Don't ask why that's something we'll be fixing if needed) I have a table that's got 19 ...
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Objects in Tempdb that are not associated with a session

I have a SQL Server 2005 instance where my tempdb i apparently holding on to objects that are not in use anymore. The database has 24gb total and is apparently unable to go below 8gb in use. For ...
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Find transactions that are filling up the version store

we have enabled the "READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT" for some of our SQL Server 2005 databases. Now from time to time we see that our TempDB is filling up the harddisk and we suspect the version store to be ...
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Splitting TempDB into multiples files equal to number of CPUs

The article SQL Server tempdb Best Practices Increase Performance suggests that I should split tempdb into a number of files equal to the number of cores. So for 4 cores you get 4 files. By ...
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Size of TempDB Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Are there drawbacks to having a large tempdb in a SQL Server database? Assuming the disk is not full. I am creating large temporary tables in a couple of queries. Once I am finished running queries, ...
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Is it normal for tempdb TPS to be higher than all other databases combined?

I'm investigating some performance issues on a production DB here, and I've noticed a slightly odd thing that I'm not sure is weird or not. If I run a quick Performance Monitor trace for the ...
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tempdb usage in SQL Server

I have a SELECT INTO statement writing to a database which is in SIMPLE recovery mode, and is not tempdb. Will this use tempdb at all? The SQL is something like USE TGTDB GO SELECT * INTO ...
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System disk run out of space when running heavy SQL queries on SQL Server 2012

I'm quite new to SQL Server 2012, I would be grateful if someone can help. I have restored a copy of a huge database to SQL Server 2012 and I tried to run some simple queries against it. I'm trying ...
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Tempdb autogrowth settings

Following on from a recent question that I asked on Tempdb. I was wondering how to correctly set the autogrowth property when adding and moving the tempdb files? I ask because I would like to let SQL ...
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Safely moving and creating new tempdb files

Two things I'd like to know, how do you safely move tempdb with minimal downtime? Also, how do you create new tempdb files? Is it 1 per core? So quad-core = 4 tempdb files, creating three new ones?
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823 errors on tempdb

Have a couple Fiber channel SAN-attached cluster servers which have been intermittently reporting errors like: 2012-05-09 16:31:54.13 spid74 Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 2. 2012-05-09 ...
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Does it ever make sense to use RAM Disk to force RAM allocation for tempdb with SQL Server 2008

If I give all RAM to SQL Server, it will use it's own pattern to determine what RAM to allocate for what. If I allocate portion of RAM as RAM Disk and put tempdb into that disk it will force RAM ...
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How to find the SQL statements which caused the tempdb grew huge?

The tempdb of an server (SQL Server 2008) increases to 500+G several times every month. Is it possilbe to find out which SQL statements cause the problems? (The problem is usually not caused by create ...
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How to quantify TEMPDB usage in relation to other databases hosted on same hardware?

Working on a project to decide if configuration 1 or 2 is the best way to organise disks for my SAN: Config1 (sql 2008): 8 disks @ raid 10 data 2 disks @ raid 1 logs 2 disks @ raid 1 tempdb 2 disks ...
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SQL Server 2005 tempdb Time out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 (pagenum)

Three separate processes have failed in the last two days with very similar errors: Time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 for page (1:1189832), database ID 2. Time-out occurred ...