Erik Darling has created a script to make your servers go slow:
It randomly generates values and changes some important configuration settings.
- Max Degree of Parallelism
- Cost Threshold
- Max Memory
- Database compatibility level
This was written for SQL Server 2016, on a box that had 384 GB of RAM. If your specs don’t line up, you may have to change the seed values here. I’m not putting any more development into this thing to automatically detect SQL version or memory in the server, because this was a one-off joke script to see how bad things could get.
How bad did they get? The server crashed multiple times.
Not for production purposes. Or maybe any purposes…