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Optimize tempdb in SQL Server by striping and splitting to multiple files

Serdar Yegulalp
10.15.2007
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The practice of storing a database across multiple files in a filegroup (or across multiple filegroups) is done all the time to enhance the performance of user-created databases. What, then, about doing the same thing to increase the performance of the temporary database, tempdb?

On SQL Server systems with a single logical processor or relativel

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y small load, a single file may really be all you need to handle tempdb. But on larger, more heavily-trafficked systems, tempdb performance can benefit from having multiple physical files allocated to it. Here are some pointers on how to go about doing this most effectively.

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