Obsolete Configuration Options

Some of the configuration options available in SQL Server 7.0 are obsolete in SQL Server 2000. Some options, such as “time slice,” were just introduced in SQL Server 7.0 and then immediately became obsolete.

The following parameters are obsolete in SQL Server 2000:

Obsoleted Configuration Options
default sortorder id resource timeout
extended memory size spin counter
language in cache time slice
language neutral full-text unicode comparison style
max async IO unicode locale id

One of the all-time favorite options in SQL Server 7.0 was max async IO. The reason that option became obsolete is because it has been completely automated with SQL Server 2000. Previously, max async IO was used to specify the number of simultaneous ...

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