• Tim L-309246 (1/25/2011)


    In http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/70505/

    it says, "Best practices call for tempdb to have one datafile per processor (core) and all to be of the same initial size and growth."

    Not necessarily.

    http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/A-SQL-Server-DBA-myth-a-day-(1230)-tempdb-should-always-have-one-data-file-per-processor-core.aspx

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