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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