CXCONSUMER and CXPACKET are associated with parallelism. When a query that has a cost beyond the cost threshold for parallelism then that query will be split out to be worked on by multiple cores. This is a good thing. It usually means that your queries are taking advantage of multiple cores. Reducing your max degree of parallelism setting is not …

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With the recent release of Database Health Monitor Version 2.0 I have decided to focus on of blogging about the features and benefits of the Database Health Monitor application. There are some incredibly valuable features that are often overlooked. The purpose of this blog series is to present some of the features of the product. If you haven’t tried Database …

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