Simple Microsoft SQL performance gains

article #1256, updated 1969 days ago

Open up your SQL server instance in the Studio. Go to the Properties of your instance.

Under Memory, you will see a minimum and a maximum. Set the minimum to 1024 (MB) or 2048. Reserve 4 gigabytes RAM minimum for the OS, add some more for anything else running on it, then use the rest as your maximum memory usage setting.

Also under Memory, you will see “Minimum memory per query”. Default is 1024. Set this to 2048.

Then under Processors, check “Boost SQL Server priority”.

And click OK.

Some info here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/server-memory-server-configuration-options?view=sql-server-2017#max_server_memory

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