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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
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network packet size

Type: Basic

Default value: 4096

The network packet size parameter specifies the default network packet size for SQL Server. Setting this value to a higher number (which should be divisible by 512) can improve the performance of applications that involve a large amount of data transfer from the server. Check your network configuration and set an appropriate value for this parameter. You can also improve performance by lowering the size value for applications that are small in data transfer size. However, the usual scenario is to increase this size to accommodate large amounts of data transfer, as with bulk loads.

The following is an example of this option:

exec sp_configure 'network packet size', ...

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