As database administrators and developers, it's our job to know the in's and out's of the data in our charge. Whether we're designing entity relationships to support underlying business requirements, optimizing indexes to achieve the best response times, or writing a query to retrieve the right data in the most efficient manner, having an intimate knowledge of the database is key.
However, since few of us are responsible for just one database, it's sometimes difficult to gain, much less maintain, that level of familiarity with our data.
Fortunately for us, however, we have the metadata available to us. We can use...
I was searching for something online the other day and stumbled upon this TechNet article - Working with tempdb in SQL Server 2005. It's a good little article and I wanted to share it with you.
Enjoy!
Joe