A Use Case for Memory-Optimized Tempdb Metadata


 

I recently had an interesting production SQL Server issue that turned out to be very easy to fix. The fix doesn’t fit every workload or server, but for the limited use cases described below, it’s a simple configuration change. The general best practice for server level configurations is to leave things at default, unless there is a specific reason for changing the settings. This will outline a use case for using memory-optimized tempdb metadata.

This covers a very specific scenario and workload. You won’t use this on a typical server, which is why it isn’t a default setting. You will