Chapter 40. Managing Workloads with the Resource Governor

If you have ever had a user kick off a runaway report that brought the system to its knees, effectively halting your production online transaction processing (OLTP) activity, you might have wished for a mechanism in SQL Server that would limit the amount of hardware resources allocated to ad hoc reporting requests so that normal production activity was not affected. Such a mechanism could prevent certain processes from consuming too many of the available SQL Server resources, ensuring that your more ...

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