Modifying Your Resource Governor Configuration

You can modify settings for resource pools or workload groups in SQL Server Management Studio via the Resource Governor Properties page, as shown previously in Figure 41.4. You simply make the changes desired (for example, a Resource Pool Maximum CPU% or Workload Group Importance) and click OK to save the changes.

Alternatively, you can modify the resource pool using the ALTER RESOURCE POOL command. With this command, you can modify the minimum and maximum CPU and memory percentages for a resource pool. You can also modify the I/O oriented thresholds, which cannot be done via SSMS. The syntax is as follows:

ALTER RESOURCE POOL { pool_name | "default" }[WITH          ( ...

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