​1. Maximum degree of parallelism should be set to half of the number of CPU's 2. Cost threshold for parallelism is default 5, but should be more in the area of 50 3. Check that you have set effective Schedule indexing jobs 4. Tempdb It is recommended to have the same number of tempdb files as CPU's, set to same size initial size 256 MB File grow should be set to 256MB, not 10% One way of changing this is: First, make sure tempdb is on in this example the F: drive USE master ; GO ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev , FILENAME = ' F: \SQLData\tempdb.mdf'); GO ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = templog , FILENAME = ' F: \SQLData\templog.ldf'); GO Then make sure to shrink file and set to 256 MB: USE tempdb GO DBCC SHRINKFILE ( tempdev , EMPTYFILE); GO 5. Database Autogrowth Change from 10% to 512 MB 6. If SQL Report Server is not beeing used, it can be deinstalled – to save some Resources 7.