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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Tempdb “Available free space” showing negative value [duplicate]

Please help as this issue is driving me nuts... Tempdb has four data files & one log file. They are all located on the same dedicated drive. When I right click on tempdb in SQL Server Management ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Tempdb “Available free space” showing negative value

Please help as this issue is driving me nuts... Tempdb has four data files & one log file. They are all located on the same dedicated drive. When I right click on tempdb in SQL Server Management ...
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SQL 2008 RTM Temp Tables

Today I implemented a monitoring solution on our SQL server using Cacti and the first thing i noticed is the growth in the number of temporary tables, in just 3 hours on our test system we had an ...
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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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TempDB data files don't shrink well on SQL 2008

So ideally you want to pre-size your TempDB data and log files appropriately so that this isn't a concern, but sometimes a rogue developer runs a crazy huge query on a production server during work ...
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Why does an AS cube rebuild use so much TempDB?

I have a 50GB SQL 2008 database (only 36 of that is data) with a 24GB Analysis Server cube that rebuilds nightly. The cube rebuilds have been using more and more of the TempDB on the SQL server each ...