Why MAXDOP shouldn't be left to default(0) and Must Be Changed

Why MAXDOP shouldn’t be left to default(0) and Must Be Changed

As you are aware, MAXDOP value is set to 0 when you do fresh installation of SQL Server on your server. Let’s understand why we should not leave it at its default value which is 0. Maxdop(Maximum Degree of Parallelism) 0 is as good as using all your processors on that server(unless you have more …

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