This is the third part of a series on installing SQL Server.

This is based on an a standalone installation of SQL Server 2017.

This blog focuses on the post installation SQL Server configuration changes.

Changes from the default settings:

- check Browser service is disabled

- change TCP port

- enable named pipes

- change min server memory

- change max server memory

- change index fill factor

- enable compress backups

- change cost threshold for parallelism

- change model recovery model

- change SQL Server Agent history max rows, max rows per job and history retention

- change system databases data and log files initial allocation and autogrowth

- check tempdb data and log files