SSMS 18.0 – SQL Server Priority Boost

I’ve been playing with SQL Server 2019/SSMS 18.0 since past few days and noticed something really awesome, there’s no more “Boost SQL Server Priority” option is SSMS 18.0 !!!! It’s probably one of the most requested feature in SSMS by DBA community.

The name “Boost SQL Server Priority” sounds like an amazing switch which makes SQL run on steroids, but in reality it’s the other way around.

So, what exactly does this option do?
Ans: It doesn’t matter in year 2019, Let’s just pretend we never had this option 🙂 Well, If you are still curious what this is about, enabling this setting will make SQL Server process run in “HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS”. Almost every process in windows run in “NORMAL_EXECUTION_CONTEXT” including network drivers, Storage drivers, I/O drivers and etc etc etc. In other words, you are making SQL Server run in higher execution context on CPU than almost any other process on your server.

So, when do we need to enable this on our SQL Servers?
Ans: Never. There’s a reason why microsoft removed this option from SSMS.

Enough background, see what I am talking about in the below screenshots.