I had a hell of a time tracking a solution to change my tempdb location without SSMS but found this post. It saved my life…

http://sql.richarddouglas.co.uk/archive/2010/08/recovering-tempdb.html

I have made four Temp Db files with 8192.000000 MB and i want reduce the size of all four file or delete it up want to recreate with 8 MB of size. Can you Please help me out-there?

i am wondering is there any way to fix tempdb full issue
without restarting server.

Thanks
gidda

Can it will be possible to move the same without stoping the IIS and putting the website down ?

I am recently facing this problem for one of our website hosted.

Please give your valuable adivise AEAP.

Thanks & Regards
Bhupendra Singh
Sr.Developer

Restarting the DB all the time is also not practical when you have a 24/7 system running.

Thomas George: according to the MS support site, tempDB cannot have its recovery model changed, its always simple.

Shakir: if you set the TempDB to not autogrow, then it will just fill up. Same with setting a maximum size. These ideas do not resolve the problem.

The only way to instantly reduce the size of the tempDB and its log is to restart the SQL service. Do not delete the files, there is no point, restarting the service will create new tempDB & its log file with small size anyway.

The real solution is to find the Root cause of what is causing the tempdb to grow in the first place. Its going to be some queries, or race conditions, or pending transactions. I don’t really know the answer. I am going to try using the profiler on the server to monitor various queries and see how the tempDB grows. I can’t see any other easier way.

Help!

Just want I was looking for..

I have checked the above script to move the temp db data/Log files to another location. It’s working fine.

The problem is solved by either restarting the SQL Server or shrink the tempdb.

BUT :) what happens if I instead deselecting the auto-grow for the tempdb and set the size to a maximum?

If the tempdb reaches the maximum size will it auto delete or shrink?

is the tempdb the same as the transactional log?
how can i move the transactional logs to a different drive from that used by the database?

@ SQL =”INSERT Table_temp SELECT Column1, column2 ….. FROM table1 INNER JOIN Table 2 … etc. “.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

Pablo (Sorry, I’m Chilean and speak only Spanish)

(Hola, La base de datos Tempdb crece sin control cuando ejecuto una instrucción EXEC (@SQL) en un SP en SQL Server 2000.

@SQL = ”INSERT Table_temp SELECT Column1, column2….. FROM table1 inner join Table 2… etc.”

¿Como puedo solucionar esto?

Gracias)

And this make the application too slow and then the reports take long time to generate.

Sql server doesn’t give any error but when stop and start the service it goes good till many reports genarated again.

I think i have problem in the tempdb.

Tempdb is auto grow and there is much disk space .about 40GB.

and its size about 200MG.

Please help ? what to do ? I trying to solve the issue since weeks…????

The Superspeed product is kind of expensive, so I was thinking of using the QSoft software.

I just ordered the additional memory last week, so I haven’t had a chance to get this setup yet. I can post a follow-up once I’ve gotten my feet wet with this a bit.

In addition to moving tempdb to a ramdrive I was also considering adding 3 additional files since my server is using two quad-core processors.

thanks…

how am i going to move the tempdb without using script? i am using mssql server 2005 sp3?

im a rookie in mssql

thanks…

1) Right click one particular database

2) Select detach

4) Go to folder where that particular database mdf and ldf
files are present

5) delete only the ldf file

6) Right click Databases in object explorer window of Sql server management studio. (Databases) is present as first item in the tree.

7) Click Attach…

8) Click Add…

9) GO to same database mdf file whose ldf you just deleted
in the locate database files window just opened
after clicking add button.

10) Two row gets just visible one for mdf other for ldf i.e. log file ,——–Click the log file row….2′nd row———–

11) Click the remove button

12) 2′nd row disappears

13) Click ok

By following above steps you delete old log files having size in giga bytes .

And allow the system to create a new log file for you of size
less than 600 KB

I have recovered 20 gb disk space by using this technique
on 7 databases

2) Move tembdb to a drive having enough disk space
say d:/ by writing sql script

USE master
GO
ALTER DATABASE TempDB MODIFY FILE
(NAME = tempdev, FILENAME = ‘d:datatempdb.mdf’)
GO
ALTER DATABASE TempDB MODIFY FILE
(NAME = templog, FILENAME = ‘d:datatemplog.ldf’)
GO

3) Close Sql server management studio.

4) Go to location

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA

5) delete tempdb’s mdf & ldf files from above location.

6) Open Sql server management studio.

Yousuf Khan by deleting the files, do you mean removing the actual files called tempdb and templog from in the Data folder? If so would this cause a negative effect on the database ie something would stop working?

If you want to regain your disk space tempdb is using
simply stop the MSSQLSERVER Service from the Sql Server Configuration Manager next delete the tempdb mdf & ldf
files from

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA

Now restart the MSSQLSERVER Service from the Sql Server Configuration Manager

your disk space is free