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SQL Server - sys.configurations

sys.configurations lists the names of server-wide configuration settings (server properties) and the range of allowed values.
These settings can be changed with the sp_configure stored procedure. This procedure also shows the currently assigned value to a setting.
select
   name                          name,
   substring(description, 1, 95) description,
   cast(minimum as integer)      minimum,
   cast(maximum as integer)      maximum,
   is_dynamic,
   is_advanced
from
   sys.configurations
order by
   name;
go
Github repository about-MSSQL, path: /administration/schemas/sys/objects/views/configurations/select.sql
The query might return something like the following:
name description minimum maximum is_dynamic is_advanced
access check cache bucket count Default hash bucket count for the access check result security cache 0 65536 1 1
access check cache quota Default quota for the access check result security cache 0 2147483647 1 1
Ad Hoc Distributed Queries Enable or disable Ad Hoc Distributed Queries 0 1 1 1
affinity I/O mask affinity I/O mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 1
affinity mask affinity mask -2147483648 2147483647 1 1
affinity64 I/O mask affinity64 I/O mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 1
affinity64 mask affinity64 mask -2147483648 2147483647 1 1
Agent XPs Enable or disable Agent XPs 0 1 1 1
allow polybase export Allow INSERT into a Hadoop external table 0 1 1 0
allow updates Allow updates to system tables 0 1 1 0
automatic soft-NUMA disabled Automatic soft-NUMA is enabled by default 0 1 0 1
backup checksum default Enable checksum of backups by default 0 1 1 0
backup compression default Enable compression of backups by default 0 1 1 0
blocked process threshold (s) Blocked process reporting threshold 0 86400 1 1
c2 audit mode c2 audit mode 0 1 0 1
clr enabled CLR user code execution enabled in the server 0 1 1 0
clr strict security CLR strict security enabled in the server 0 1 1 1
common criteria compliance enabled Common Criteria compliance mode enabled 0 1 0 1
contained database authentication Enables contained databases and contained authentication 0 1 1 0
cost threshold for parallelism cost threshold for parallelism 0 32767 1 1
cross db ownership chaining Allow cross db ownership chaining 0 1 1 0
cursor threshold cursor threshold -1 2147483647 1 1
Database Mail XPs Enable or disable Database Mail XPs 0 1 1 1
default full-text language default full-text language 0 2147483647 1 1
default language default language 0 9999 1 0
default trace enabled Enable or disable the default trace 0 1 1 1
disallow results from triggers Disallow returning results from triggers 0 1 1 1
EKM provider enabled Enable or disable EKM provider 0 1 1 1
external scripts enabled Allows execution of external scripts 0 1 0 0
filestream access level Sets the FILESTREAM access level 0 2 1 0
fill factor (%) Default fill factor percentage 0 100 0 1
ft crawl bandwidth (max) Max number of full-text crawl buffers 0 32767 1 1
ft crawl bandwidth (min) Number of reserved full-text crawl buffers 0 32767 1 1
ft notify bandwidth (max) Max number of full-text notifications buffers 0 32767 1 1
ft notify bandwidth (min) Number of reserved full-text notifications buffers 0 32767 1 1
hadoop connectivity Configure SQL Server to connect to external Hadoop or Microsoft Azure storage blob data sources 0 7 0 0
index create memory (KB) Memory for index create sorts (kBytes) 704 2147483647 1 1
in-doubt xact resolution Recovery policy for DTC transactions with unknown outcome 0 2 1 1
lightweight pooling User mode scheduler uses lightweight pooling 0 1 0 1
locks Number of locks for all users 5000 2147483647 0 1
max degree of parallelism maximum degree of parallelism 0 32767 1 1
max full-text crawl range Maximum crawl ranges allowed in full-text indexing 0 256 1 1
max server memory (MB) Maximum size of server memory (MB) 128 2147483647 1 1
max text repl size (B) Maximum size of a text field in replication. -1 2147483647 1 0
max worker threads Maximum worker threads 128 65535 1 1
media retention Tape retention period in days 0 365 1 1
min memory per query (KB) minimum memory per query (kBytes) 512 2147483647 1 1
min server memory (MB) Minimum size of server memory (MB) 0 2147483647 1 1
nested triggers Allow triggers to be invoked within triggers 0 1 1 0
network packet size (B) Network packet size 512 32767 1 1
Ole Automation Procedures Enable or disable Ole Automation Procedures 0 1 1 1
open objects Number of open database objects 0 2147483647 0 1
optimize for ad hoc workloads When this option is set, plan cache size is further reduced for single-use adhoc OLTP workload. 0 1 1 1
PH timeout (s) DB connection timeout for full-text protocol handler (s) 1 3600 1 1
polybase network encryption Configure SQL Server to encrypt control and data channels when using PolyBase 0 1 0 0
precompute rank Use precomputed rank for full-text query 0 1 1 1
priority boost Priority boost 0 1 0 1
query governor cost limit Maximum estimated cost allowed by query governor 0 2147483647 1 1
query wait (s) maximum time to wait for query memory (s) -1 2147483647 1 1
recovery interval (min) Maximum recovery interval in minutes 0 32767 1 1
remote access Allow remote access 0 1 0 0
remote admin connections Dedicated Admin Connections are allowed from remote clients 0 1 1 0
remote data archive Allow the use of the REMOTE_DATA_ARCHIVE data access for databases 0 1 1 0
remote login timeout (s) remote login timeout 0 2147483647 1 0
remote proc trans Create DTC transaction for remote procedures 0 1 1 0
remote query timeout (s) remote query timeout 0 2147483647 1 0
Replication XPs Enable or disable Replication XPs 0 1 1 1
scan for startup procs scan for startup stored procedures 0 1 0 1
server trigger recursion Allow recursion for server level triggers 0 1 1 0
set working set size set working set size 0 1 0 1
show advanced options show advanced options 0 1 1 0
SMO and DMO XPs Enable or disable SMO and DMO XPs 0 1 1 1
transform noise words Transform noise words for full-text query 0 1 1 1
two digit year cutoff two digit year cutoff 1753 9999 1 1
user connections Number of user connections allowed 0 32767 0 1
user options user options 0 32767 1 0
xp_cmdshell Enable or disable command shell (stored procedure xp_cmdshell 0 1 1 1

See also

The sys schema.

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