How to test TempDB performance?

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Published on 2011-11-23T08:46:31Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 9:55 UTC
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I'm getting some conflicting advice on how to best configure our SQL storage with our current SAN. I would like to do some of my own performance testing with a few different configurations.

I looked at using SQLIOSim but it doesn't seem to simulate TempDB.

Can anyone recommend a way to test data, log and TempDB performance?

What about using a SQL profiler trace file from our production system? How would I use This to run against my test server?

Thanks, Matt

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