People worry about code readability and that's a good thing but they forget one of the most important tools there is that makes even the most obtuse code (sometimes necessary...

If there's that much contention for TempDB, I'm thinking there might be some code problems that need to be fixed.

There IS a form of freespace that WILL cause your code to run slower and also consume more memory.  If you do a bunch of deletes but it doesn't actually...

Pretty cool.  I just wish it could figure out who wrote the objects returned so that I can add their names to a pork chop list. 😀

Please post a handful of the "0x" values from the table you loaded those DT_BYTE values into so we can have a look.