List of Server Parameters

Parameter Value Description
affinity I/O mask 0 affinity I/O mask
affinity mask 0 affinity mask
affinity64 I/O mask 0 affinity64 I/O mask
affinity64 mask 0 affinity64 mask
cross db ownership chaining 0 Allow cross db ownership chaining
server trigger recursion 1 Allow recursion for server level triggers
remote access 1 Allow remote access
nested triggers 1 Allow triggers to be invoked within triggers
allow updates 0 Allow updates to system tables
awe enabled 0 AWE enabled in the server
blocked process threshold (s) 0 Blocked process reporting threshold
c2 audit mode 0 c2 audit mode
clr enabled 0 CLR user code execution enabled in the server
common criteria compliance enabled 0 Common Criteria compliance mode enabled
cost threshold for parallelism 5 cost threshold for parallelism
remote proc trans 0 Create DTC transaction for remote procedures
cursor threshold -1 cursor threshold
PH timeout (s) 60 DB connection timeout for full-text protocol handler (s)
remote admin connections 0 Dedicated Admin Connections are allowed from remote clients
fill factor (%) 0 Default fill factor percentage
default full-text language 1033 default full-text language
access check cache bucket count 0 Default hash bucket count for the access check result security cache
default language 0 default language
access check cache quota 0 Default quota for the access check result security cache
disallow results from triggers 0 Disallow returning results from triggers
backup compression default 0 Enable compression of backups by default
Ad Hoc Distributed Queries 0 Enable or disable Ad Hoc Distributed Queries
Agent XPs 1 Enable or disable Agent XPs
xp_cmdshell 0 Enable or disable command shell
Database Mail XPs 0 Enable or disable Database Mail XPs
EKM provider enabled 0 Enable or disable EKM provider
Ole Automation Procedures 0 Enable or disable Ole Automation Procedures
Replication XPs 0 Enable or disable Replication XPs
SMO and DMO XPs 1 Enable or disable SMO and DMO XPs
SQL Mail XPs 0 Enable or disable SQL Mail XPs
default trace enabled 1 Enable or disable the default trace
ft crawl bandwidth (max) 100 Max number of full-text crawl buffers
ft notify bandwidth (max) 100 Max number of full-text notifications buffers
max full-text crawl range 4 Maximum crawl ranges allowed in full-text indexing
max degree of parallelism 0 maximum degree of parallelism
query governor cost limit 0 Maximum estimated cost allowed by query governor
recovery interval (min) 0 Maximum recovery interval in minutes
max text repl size (B) 65536 Maximum size of a text field in replication.
max server memory (MB) 2147483647 Maximum size of server memory (MB)
query wait (s) -1 maximum time to wait for query memory (s)
max worker threads 0 Maximum worker threads
index create memory (KB) 0 Memory for index create sorts (kBytes)
min memory per query (KB) 1024 minimum memory per query (kBytes)
min server memory (MB) 16 Minimum size of server memory (MB)
network packet size (B) 4096 Network packet size
locks 0 Number of locks for all users
open objects 0 Number of open database objects
ft crawl bandwidth (min) 0 Number of reserved full-text crawl buffers
ft notify bandwidth (min) 0 Number of reserved full-text notifications buffers
user connections 0 Number of user connections allowed
priority boost 0 Priority boost
in-doubt xact resolution 0 Recovery policy for DTC transactions with unknown outcome
remote login timeout (s) 20 remote login timeout
remote query timeout (s) 600 remote query timeout
scan for startup procs 0 scan for startup stored procedures
set working set size 0 set working set size
filestream access level 2 Sets the FILESTREAM access level
show advanced options 1 show advanced options
media retention 0 Tape retention period in days
transform noise words 0 Transform noise words for full-text query
two digit year cutoff 2049 two digit year cutoff
precompute rank 0 Use precomputed rank for full-text query
lightweight pooling 0 User mode scheduler uses lightweight pooling
user options 0 user options
optimize for ad hoc workloads 0 When this option is set, plan cache size is further reduced for single-use adhoc OLTP workload.

See also

List of Server Properties