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RE: Re-size TempDB files

AmarPo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:28:33 GMT

Looks like bunch of XML tags are getting exposed. I see them in the edit mode too. I took them out and resubmitted the article but I will also get in touch with the editor to see what's going on here.I hope the new submission shows clearly.

RE: Re-size TempDB files

mishaluba — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:34:56 GMT

Thank you for the article. The text looks very odd with all the HTML tags exposed when I view it (happens in both IE7 and FireFox3). Is it just me?

RE: Re-size TempDB files

Alex Prusakov — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:30:03 GMT

I have bad feelings if one table (sys.master_files) has one values and another (sys.database_files) is different. It would be great to know how to sink all.

RE: Re-size TempDB files

iain27 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:47:21 GMT

My experience was the same, if you use the gui - ssms it lets you reduce the size of the file. I created 4 x 4gb files and re sized them in the gui to 1 Gb each, with windows explorer open you could actually see the file size change - no service restart was needed. Although I would point out this was a new server build not being used in production at the time.Iain

RE: Re-size TempDB files

Alex Prusakov — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:29:29 GMT

The article is right in time for me. I’ve just added new ndf files to TempDb. Unfortunately, there is a small issue that surprised me. As you can see in attached Word file, that result of run of EXEC sp_helpfile and SELECT * FROM sys.master_files is different for initial size and current file size of TempDb.Can anybody explain what does it mean and if there is a way to resolve it without service restart? It is working and there is no problem with that but if I run DBCC SHRINKDB, the initial size for Tempdb.mdf will jump to 6Gb and files will not be same size that may lead to disproportional load. I am not afraid to make each file 6Gb but the server doesn’t need 6*8=48Gb Tempdb.Initially TempDb had size of 6Gb and I had no problem adding ndf files with initial size of 500Mb. However, every attempt to reduce initial size of TempDB.mdf resulted in error message: “MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size."My last step was: SSMS --> TempDB --> Properties --> Files --> Initial size modified to 500; Click OK; Restart Service. After that TempDB is 4Gb (8*0.5).

RE: Re-size TempDB files

Charles Kincaid — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:54:18 GMT

I had heard that you could[ul][li]Stop the service[/li][li]Kill the TempDB files[/li][li]Start the service[/li][/ul]The downsides are two: (1) stopping the service, and (2) not being able to control where TempDB lives. This resets the Missing/Unused index statistics that SQL server keeps for you and that can be a bad thing as well.

RE: Re-size TempDB files

rudy - Doctor "X" — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:43:58 GMT

The -m parameter is definitely needed to prevent any other dbo or administrator type access - this is especially true during outages on production SQL servers.

RE: Re-size TempDB files

TravisDBA — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:10:06 GMT

You have to be careful how you use the word RESTRICTED in SQL Server. Using the startup instance of C:\SQL\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn>sqlservr.exe -c -f puts the instance in [b]minimal configuration[/b]. This is for setting of a configuration value The option enables the sp_configure allow updates option. On the other hand, the term RESTRICTED in SQL Server refers to the USER that can access things such as the RESTRICTED_USER option of the ALTER DATABASE command. RESTRICTED here refers to only members of the db_owner fixed database role and dbcreator and sysadmin fixed server roles that can connect to the database. MINIMAL CONFIGURATION and the term RESTRICTED are two totally different things in SQL Server, where semantics does matter. Regards. Travis.

RE: Re-size TempDB files

ESL_HSBC — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:05:34 GMT

Hi,remove *.ndf file is very delicate, cause for best performance with tempdb , you have to add a number of tempdb files equal to the number of processor's.regards ,eric.simbozel@hsbc.fr

Re-size TempDB files

AmarPo — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:37:21 GMT

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