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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ritesh Shah
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Chapter 17. Configuring SQL Server for Optimization

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Configuring SQL Server to use more processing power
  • Configuring memory in 32 bit versus 64 bit
  • Configuring "Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads"
  • Optimizing SQL Server instance configuration

Introduction

SQL Server provides one system stored procedure, named SP_Configure, which helps you to manage the SQL Server instance-level configuration. A configuration comes with a default value, but based on the server, load on the server, and your own usage, you can change its default value to something else that can give you benefits from the performance point of view. Apart from the settings given in the SP_Configure stored procedure, the type of instance (32 bit/64 bit) also affects ...

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