Most of the time, when you need to change SQL Server’s behavior – like how it handles memory or parallelism – there are easy-to-use switches to get the job done. In SQL Server Management Studio, just right-click on the server’s name, go into Properties, and there are all kinds of things you can mess with. Most of the time, you’re going to make things worse, but whatever.
Every now and then, when you work with Microsoft support, you might hit a specialized situation where you need a very unusual change in SQL Server’s behavior. These settings aren’t well-documented, nor are