Comprehensive tempdb blog post series

Posted on: January 16, 2009 9:24 am

Over the last few weeks Sunil Agarwal (from the SQL Storage Engine team) has posted a great series of blog articles about tempdb and the version store, over on my old stomping ground – the Storage Engine blog. The articles are well worth reading – the links are:

Managing tempdb part 1 and part 2
Version store – what is it?
Version store example
Version store logical structure
Version store growth and removing stale versions
tempdb configuration
tempdb troubleshooting: IO bottlenecks
tempdb troubleshooting: allocation bottlenecks
tempdb troubleshooting: DDL bottlenecks
tempdb troubleshooting: out-of-space

Enjoy!