Configuring the tempdb database on separate physical disk
The tempdb
database is one of the system databases of SQL Server that is essential for its normal functioning. SQL Server relies on the tempdb
database to perform many of its operations and stores internal objects in this database. The following are some of the operations for which the tempdb
database is used by SQL Server:
Performing grouping or sorting operations in queries
Cursor operations
Version store operation
Online index creation
Storing intermediate results in worktables
Storing user objects, such as local or global temporary tables and table variable data
The tempdb
database is the central database for all the databases and applications per the SQL Server instance. Therefore, if many database applications are using tempdb
extensively, the performance of the tempdb
database is very crucial for the overall performance of the SQL Server instance. If tempdb
resides on the same disk, which is also used by the other application databases...