• Thanks for your valuable reply,

    I googled found Parallelism in SQL Server is for Operators involved( actually its bit more but for practical purpose note this) not for the query, thats why i am seeing more sessions than specified in MAXDOP.

    I found following article that describes it in detail:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverfaq/archive/2009/01/05/why-do-i-see-more-threads-per-spid-in-sysprocesses-than-maxdop.aspx

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    Aditya Rathour
    SQL DBA

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