An important change to the MAXDOP documentation was made last week, with a good write up by Pedro Lopes (Twitter), a Program Manager on the SQL Server team at Microsoft. First though, some background on parallelism. How do parallel queries work on SQL Server? SQL Server uses a costing algorithm to decide how “expensive” a
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