While conducting Interview for my outsourcing project, I asked one question to interviewer that what are the restrictions on TempDB? Candidate was not able to answer the question. I thought it would be good for all my readers to know answer to this question so if you face this question in interview or if you meet me in interview you will be able to answer this question.
- Adding filegroups.
- Backing up or restoring the database.
- Changing collation. The default collation is the server collation.
- Changing the database owner. tempdb is owned by dbo.
- Creating a database snapshot.
- Dropping the database.
- Dropping the guest user from the database.
- Participating in database mirroring.
- Removing the primary filegroup, primary data file, or log file.
- Renaming the database or primary filegroup.
- Running DBCC CHECKALLOC.
- Running DBCC CHECKCATALOG.
- Setting the database to OFFLINE.
- Setting the database or primary filegroup to READ_ONLY.
Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com), BOL
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