Never is Not the Policy

voiceofthedba's podcast by Steve Jones

Aug 18, 202603:33Technology

Years ago I worked with a few developers and DBAs that were temp-table happy. As in they defaulted to using temp tables everywhere. This was in SQL Server 6.5, and tempdb was an issue with contention, sizing, and perform...

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