Because so many similar
configuration options are controlled by different commands and at
different levels (server, database, connection), this section organizes
the configuration options by topic, rather than by command or level.
1. Displaying the Advanced Options
As with many operations, displaying
advanced options can be achieved using several methods. One method is
to query the sys.configurations catalog view as shown here:
SELECT name, minimum, maximum, value, value_in_use
FROM sys.configurations
WHERE is_advanced = 1
ORDER BY name;
The preceding example displays all the SQL Server advanced options. To display all the options, comment out the WHERE clause. Another method to display the advanced options is to turn on the show advanced options configuration using the following code:
EXEC sp_configure ‘show advanced options', 1;
RECONFIGURE;
Note
After a configuration setting is changed with sp_configure, the RECONFIGURE command causes the changes to take effect. If you don't run RECONFIGURE, then the config_value field still shows the change, but the change won't appear in the run_value field, even if you restart the service. Some configuration changes take effect only after SQL Server is restarted.
After you set the advanced option display on, you can use the sp_configure command to display a list of all the options.
EXEC sp_configure;
Result (with advanced options enabled):
name minimum maximum config_value run_value
------------------------------- ----------- ----------- ------------ -------
access check cache bucket count 0 16384 0 0
access check cache quota 0 2147483647 0 0
Ad Hoc Distributed Queries 0 1 0 0
affinity I/O mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0
affinity64 I/O mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0
affinity mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0
affinity64 mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0
Agent XPs 0 1 1 1
allow updates 0 1 0 0
awe enabled 0 1 0 0
backup compression default 0 1 0 0
blocked process threshold (s) 0 86400 0 0
c2 audit mode 0 1 0 0
clr enabled 0 1 0 0
common criteria compliance enabled 0 1 0 0
cost threshold for parallelism 0 32767 5 5
cross db ownership chaining 0 1 0 0
cursor threshold -1 2147483647 -1 -1
Database Mail XPs 0 1 0 0
default full-text language 0 2147483647 1033 1033
default language 0 9999 0 0
default trace enabled 0 1 1 1
disallow results from triggers 0 1 0 0
EKM provider enabled 0 1 0 0
FILESTREAM access level 0 2 2 2
fill factor (%) 0 100 0 0
ft crawl bandwidth (max) 0 32767 100 100
ft crawl bandwidth (min) 0 32767 0 0
ft notify bandwidth (max) 0 32767 100 100
ft notify bandwidth (min) 0 32767 0 0
index create memory (KB) 704 2147483647 0 0
in-doubt xact resolution 0 2 0 0
lightweight pooling 0 1 0 0
locks 5000 2147483647 0 0
max degree of parallelism 0 64 0 0
max full-text crawl range 0 256 4 4
max server memory (MB) 16 2147483647 2147483647
2147483647
max text repl size (B) -1 2147483647 65536 65536
max worker threads 128 32767 0 0
media retention 0 365 0 0
min memory per query (KB) 512 2147483647 1024 1024
min server memory (MB) 0 2147483647 0 0
nested triggers 0 1 1 1
network packet size (B) 512 32767 4096 4096
Ole Automation Procedures 0 1 0 0
open objects 0 2147483647 0 0
optimize for ad hoc workloads 0 1 0 0
PH timeout (s) 1 3600 60 60
precompute rank 0 1 0 0
priority boost 0 1 0 0
query governor cost limit 0 2147483647 0 0
query wait (s) -1 2147483647 -1 -1
recovery interval (min) 0 32767 0 0
remote access 0 1 1 1
remote admin connections 0 1 0 0
remote login timeout (s) 0 2147483647 20 20
remote proc trans 0 1 0 0
remote query timeout (s) 0 2147483647 600 600
Replication XPs 0 1 0 0
scan for startup procs 0 1 0 0
server trigger recursion 0 1 1 1
set working set size 0 1 0 0
show advanced options 0 1 1 1
SMO and DMO XPs 0 1 1 1
SQL Mail XPs 0 1 0 0
transform noise words 0 1 0 0
two digit year cutoff 1753 9999 2049 2049
user connections 0 32767 0 0
user options 0 32767 0 0
xp_cmdshell 0 1 0 0
Note
The key difference between the previous two methods to display advanced options is that the sys.configurations catalog view displays only the configurations. The show advanced options configuration not only controls the display of advanced options through sp_configure system stored procedure, but it also controls whether these advanced options can be changed.
