RE: Clearing SQL 2005/20008 TempDB

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October 22, 2012 at 9:57 am

brekher (10/14/2011)
Why not just shrink it with DBCC SHRINKFILE commands and/or create mulitple files?

How about because if you try to do a shrink on temp db while the server is in other than a single user mode, you could end up corrupting databases.

Also, shrinking Temp DB is normally a futile exercise unless you've found out and fixed whatever made it grow beyond expectations.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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