FIX: Significantly increased PAGELATCH_EX contentions in sys.sysobjvalues in SQL Server 2016

You remove temporary objects such as temporary tables, table variables, or table-valued parameters in Microsoft SQL Server 2016. In this scenario, significantly increased PAGELATCH_EX contentions occur on the sys.sysobjvalues system base table when you compare it to earlier versions of SQL Server.

This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:

Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2016 RTM

Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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