Review Questions

  1. You are the database administrator of a SQL Server 2005 instance. The server has recently been upgraded from 2GB to 4GB of RAM and from two processors to four processors because users were complaining about performance. Performance has not improved as much as management would have liked, and management has asked you to troubleshoot. The SQL Server 2005 instance has the following configuration:

    Configuration Option Configured Value
    affinity I/O mask 0
    affinity mask 0
    awe enabled 0
    cost threshold for parallelism 5
    lightweight pooling 0
    max degree of parallelism 0
    max server memory (MB) 2147483647
    max worker threads 2
    priority boost 1
    set working size 1
    user connections 0

    You need to ensure that performance ...

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