Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
SQL Server System Configuration
You can configure the machine that SQL Server runs on, as well as the Database Engine itself, in several ways and through a variety of interfaces. We’ll first look at some operating system–level settings that can affect the behavior of SQL Server. Next, we’ll see some SQL Server options that can affect behavior that aren’t especially considered to be configuration options. Finally, we’ll examine the configuration options for controlling the behavior of SQL Server 2008, which are set primarily using a stored procedure interface called sp_configure.
Operating System Configuration
For your SQL Server to run well, it must be running on a tuned operating system, on a machine that has been properly configured to run SQL ...
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