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Find number of Physical CPUs using a query

Few days ago I had explained how to find the number of Physical CPUs installed using third party tools. Just a while ago, I figured out that using sys.dm_os_sys_info DMV that information can be obtained far more easily. I executed … Continue reading

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Find the number of Physical CPUs

While troubleshooting high CPU usage on one of the instances, someone pointed out that the “Max Degree of Parallelism” option was set correctly or not. It was set correctly to 4 and it did not contribute to the high CPU … Continue reading

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