Re-size TempDB files
Managing TempDB can be a bit tricky at times. Most people know how to increase the size, but what about reducing it? New author Amar Pogaku brings us two techniques for shrinking tempdb.
2009-04-03
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Indepth SPID information
This SP gives you most of the detail you need on a long running query. Simply pass the SPID.
2009-01-12 (first published: 2008-12-31)
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Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
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