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Chapter 5

Setting Configuration Parameters

This chapter describes the Adaptive Server configuration parameters. A configuration parameter is a user-definable setting that you set with the system procedure sp_configure. Configuration parameters are used for a wide range of services, from basic to specific server operations, and for performance tuning.

Adaptive Server configuration parameters
[-] What are configuration parameters?
The Adaptive Server configuration file
How to modify configuration parameters
Who can modify configuration parameters?
Unit specification using sp_configure
Getting help information on configuration parameters
[-] Using sp_configure
[+] Syntax elements
[+] Using sp_configure with a configuration file
The parameter hierarchy
[+] User-defined subsets of the parameter hierarchy: display levels
The reconfigure command
Performance tuning with sp_configure and sp_sysmon
Output from sp_configure
[-] The sysconfigures and syscurconfigs tables
Querying syscurconfigs and sysconfigures: an example
[-] Details on configuration parameters
Renamed configuration parameters
Replaced configuration parameter
[+] Backup and recovery
[+] Cache manager
[+] Component Integration Services administration
[+] Disk I/O
[+] DTM administration
[+] Error log
[+] Extended stored procedures
[+] General information
[+] Java services
[+] Languages
[+] Lock Manager
[+] Memory use
[+] Metadata caches
[+] Network communication
[+] O/S resources
[+] Parallel queries
[+] Physical memory
[+] Processors
[+] RepAgent thread administration
[+] SQL server administration
[+] Security related
[+] Unicode
[+] User environment


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