Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series.
Over the past several SQL Server releases, Microsoft has improved the concurrency and performance of the tempdb database. In SQL Server 2022 we are addressing one of the last areas of contention by introducing concurrent global allocation map (GAM) and shared global allocation map (SGAM) updates which will give SQL Server 2022 a big improvement for scalability as tempdb is arguably the most important database in your environment.
Tempdb performance challenges
Historically, tempdb has been one of those common pain points in SQL Server. Why was it a pain point? Well, usage is one of