December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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priority boost
Type: Advanced
Default value: 0
The priority boost option is used to specify the process priority of SQL Server processes on the Windows operating system. The default value of 0 means that SQL Server should run on the same priority level—a priority base of 7—as other applications on the machine. This option can be turned on if you have plenty of horsepower to deal with all other services on the box, as in a multiprocessor environment. When you turn on priority boost, the priority base of SQL Server is elevated to 13.
The following is an example of this option:
exec sp_configure 'priority boost', 1goRECONFIGUREgo
Note
You shouldn’t set the value of the priority boost parameter to 1 except in the case ...