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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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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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SQL Server TempDB behaviour in large memory environment

Reading over In-memory SQL Server log file reminded me of a question I had a short while ago. We have a SQL Server that has 512GB of RAM, the main database is (only) 450GB. We see quite a lot of ...
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Creating new TempDB files

I would like advice on what would be the best setup for our SQL Server 2005 TempDB. At the moment our Temp DB consists of a single MDF file of 3 GB and a single log file of 120 MB on the D: drive of ...
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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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sys.syshobtcolumns Help

Does anyone have a good link to documentation regarding how the syshobtcolumns and syshobt system tables are populated. The reason for asking is that we are receiving pagelatch_sh and pageliolatch_ex ...
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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 ...