Does tempdb Get Recreated From model at Startup?

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Published on Fri, 14 May 2010 10:32:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/14 10:35 UTC
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In my last post Does the tempdb Log file get Zero Initialized at Startup? I questioned whether or not tempdb is actually created from the model database or not at startup. There is actually an easy way to prove that this statement, at least internally to the tempdb database is in fact TRUE. Many thanks go out to Bob Ward (Blog | Twitter) for pointing this out after trading emails with him. To validate that tempdb is actually copied at startup from the model database, all that is necessary...(read more)

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