Change Resource Pool Settings

Article
02/28/2023

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance

You can change resource pool settings by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL.

Before you begin: Limitations and Restrictions, Permissions
To change the settings for a resource pool, using: SQL Server Management Studio, Transact-SQL

Before You Begin

Limitations and Restrictions

The maximum CPU percentage must be equal to or higher than the minimum CPU percentage. The maximum memory percentage must be equal to or higher than the minimum memory percentage.

The sums of the minimum CPU percentages and minimum memory percentages for all resource pools must not exceed 100.

Permissions

Changing resource pool settings requires CONTROL SERVER permission.

Change Resource Pool Settings Using SQL Server Management Studio

To change resource pool settings by using SQL Server Management Studio

In SQL Server Management Studio, open Object Explorer and recursively expand the Management node down to and including Resource Pools.
Right-click the resource pool to be modified, and then click Properties.
In the Resource Governor Properties page, select the row for the resource pool in the Resource pools grid if it is not automatically selected.
Click or double-click the cells in the row to be changed, and enter the new values.
To save the changes, click OK

Change Resource Pool Settings Using Transact-SQL

To change resource pool settings by using Transact-SQL

Run the ALTER RESOURCE POOL or ALTER EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL statement specifying the property values to be changed.
Run the ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE statement.

Example (Transact-SQL)

The following example changes the max CPU percentage setting for the resource pool named poolAdhoc.

ALTER RESOURCE POOL poolAdhoc  
WITH (MAX_CPU_PERCENT = 25);  
GO  
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE;  
GO