Thursday, August 1, 2013

Do you backup tempdb database?

The answer is no, you cannot drop or backup the temp db. However you can increase or decrees the size.

open ssms run the following script.

backup database [tempdb]
to disk = 'C:\tempdb.bak' with stats =  10

it will return the error message

Msg 3147, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Backup and restore operations are not allowed on database tempdb.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

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