• That's not contention, that's just queries using a lot of TempDB.

    Query the sys.dm_db_session_space_usage to identify sessions using lots of TempDB. You can join it back to sys.dm_exec_sessions to get the sQL hangle. Will need to poll it, it's just current sessions, not history.

    Gail Shaw
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