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:
Enjoy!
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(This post first appeared on SQLperformance.com four years ago as part of a blog series, before that website was mothballed later in 2022 and the
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