sp_helpdb output includes information about the durability of a user-created temporary database.
create temporary database tempdb_explicit on default = 50 with durability = no_recovery
sp_helpdb tempdb_explicit name db_size owner dbid created durability lobcomplvl inrowlen status ---- ------- ----- ---- ------- ---------- ---------- -------- ------ tempdb_explicit 50.0 MB sa 7 Dec 05, 2012 no_recovery 0 NULL select into/bulkcopy/pllsort, trunc log on chkpt, mixed log and data, user-created enhanced performance temp db, allow wide dol rows (1 row affected) device_fragments size usage created free kbytes ----------------- ------ -------------- ------------------ ------------- master 50.0 MB data and log Dec 5 2012 8:49PM 49216 (return status = 0)
Earlier versions of sp_helpdb did not indicate whether user-created temporary databases were explicitly created with a durability of no_recovery.