SQL Server Error Msg 5850 – Online addition of CPU resources cannot be completed. A software non-uniform memory access (soft-NUMA) configuration was specified at SQL Server startup that does not allow online addition of CPU resources. To use the additional CPU resources, either add the new CPUs to the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server, or remove the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server.

In this blog post, let’s learn about the error message “5850 – Online addition of CPU resources cannot be completed. A software non-uniform memory access (soft-NUMA) configuration was specified at SQL Server startup that does not allow online addition of CPU resources. To use the additional CPU resources, either add the new CPUs to the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server, or remove the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server.” in Microsoft SQL Server, the reason why it appears and the solution to fix it.

SQL Server Error Message

5850 – Online addition of CPU resources cannot be completed. A software non-uniform memory access (soft-NUMA) configuration was specified at SQL Server startup that does not allow online addition of CPU resources. To use the additional CPU resources, either add the new CPUs to the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server, or remove the soft-NUMA configuration and restart SQL Server.

Reason for the Error

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Solution

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