{"id":963,"date":"2009-01-16T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Comprehensive-tempdb-blog-post-series.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:56:17","slug":"comprehensive-tempdb-blog-post-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/comprehensive-tempdb-blog-post-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive tempdb blog post series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Over the last few weeks Sunil Agarwal (from the SQL Storage Engine team) has&nbsp;posted a great series of blog articles about tempdb and the version store, over on my old stomping ground &#8211; the Storage Engine blog. The articles are well worth reading &#8211; the links are: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Managing tempdb <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/12\/21\/tempdb-basics.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">part 1<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> and <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/12\/22\/tempdb-basics-cont.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">part 2<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/12\/22\/managing-tempdb-in-sql-server-tempdb-basics-verison-store.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Version store &#8211; what is it?<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/12\/31\/managing-tempdb-in-sql-server-tempdb-basics-version-store-simple-example.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Version store example<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/12\/31\/managing-tempdb-in-sql-server-tempdb-basics-version-store-logical-structure.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Version store logical structure<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/01\/managing-tempdb-in-sql-server-tempdb-basics-version-store-growth-and-removing-stale-row-versions.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Version store growth and removing stale versions<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/04\/managing-tempdb-in-sql-server-tempdb-configuration.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">tempdb configuration<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/05\/tempdb-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-io-bottleneck.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">tempdb troubleshooting: IO bottlenecks<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/11\/tempdb-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-allocation-bottleneck.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">tempdb troubleshooting: allocation bottlenecks<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/12\/tempdb-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-ddl-bottleneck.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">tempdb troubleshooting: DDL bottlenecks<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2009\/01\/12\/tempdb-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-out-of-space.aspx\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">tempdb troubleshooting: out-of-space<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Enjoy!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks Sunil Agarwal (from the SQL Storage Engine team) has&nbsp;posted a great series of blog articles about tempdb and the version store, over on my old stomping ground &#8211; the Storage Engine blog. 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