December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
When you install Windows Server operating system, you need to check for power settings, which are configured on such systems. There are several options for how you can verify which power setting plan is currently in use. If you open a command prompt or PowerShell, you can use the powercfg utility to see what plan is used on your server:
powercfg.exe -list
By default, you will see a Balanced plan selected, which is great for most servers and offers a lot of power-saving features, but usually this plan is not optimal for SQL Servers. SQL Server can put quite some load on the CPU and switching between CPU speeds may cost you precious time and performance. If you open the Task Manager tool, you can see that your CPU ...
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