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		<title>Configuring the Maximum Degree of Parallelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commonly altered setting is Maximum Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP), which controls the maximum number of CPUs that can be used in executing a single task. For example, a large query may be broken up into different parts, with each part executing threads on separate CPUs. Such a query is known as a parallel query. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Service Level Agreements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Characterizing I/O Workload</title>
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