I am looking for syntax. Actually I need to check of query uses multiple processor by doing parallelism but have single processor machine. I read couple of places -P switch but could not find how to use it….
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I am looking for syntax. Actually I need to check of query uses multiple processor by doing parallelism but have single processor machine. I read couple of places -P switch but could not find how to use it….
There is a full walk through of how to use it in this article.
Simply add
;-P16to the end of the list of Startup Parameters in the SQL Server Configuration Manager and restart the service.Upon restart
SELECT cpu_count FROM sys.dm_os_sys_infoshould indicate that SQL Server thinks you have 16 processors.You might also consider
As a less intrusive (but equally undocumented) way of achieving the same end. More details on that one here.