Where should I put the tempdb log file ?

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Where should I put the tempdb log file ?

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May 11, 2012 at 4:40 pm

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Just got a new box with three LUNs for Data , TLog and TempDB, everything else is good, just wondering where should I put log of tempdb , on Log LUN or TempDB LUN ?
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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90303 More actions · Answer 1

I would keep it on the tempdb LUN myself, but it would really depend on how heavily tempdb is used on your system and how the LUNs were built, the SAN and how much cache is on the SAN.

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Golfer22 SSCrazy Points: 2256 More actions · Answer 2

The canonical answer would be a LUN that is using RAID1. The underlying hardware configuration of the LUN would be relevant for your determination. The tempdb may take many small writes. Some DBAs think that distributing the information over many hard disks can reduce performance. Some people find that RAID 5 traditionally increases performance as there are multiple hard drive controllers writing. But for the type of work a tempdb will be doing with the storage, RAID 1 may be the best choice.

Check this out:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea/archive/2007/02/07/is-raid-5-really-that-bad.aspx

I know a tempdb is different from a TLog, this article may be useful:

http://sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/post/8-steps-to-better-transaction-log-throughput.aspx

awu SSCrazy Points: 2037 More actions · Answer 3

tempdb will have heavy disk IO as the databases have snapshot isolation turned on .

All three LUNs are RAID 10, both data and log luns will have snap mirror over to other data center and tempdb LUN will not , and data LUN are read ahead cache and Log LUN not turn it on.

So, it could improve diskIO if i put the log on TLog LUN instead of tempdb LUN, but it will cost more SAN snapshot space on the other hand ....., so wondering how you guys handling this on your servers ? Thanks.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 4

The way I'd handle it is to ask the san folks to reconfigure the TempDB LUN to Raid 1.

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