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[-] Chapter 6 Limiting Access to Server Resources

Chapter 6

Limiting Access to Server Resources

This chapter describes how to use resource limits to restrict the I/O cost, row count, or processing time that an individual login or application can use during critical times. It also describes how to create named time ranges to specify contiguous blocks of time for resource limits.

What are resource limits?
Planning resource limits
Enabling resource limits
[-] Defining time ranges
Determining the time ranges you need
[+] Creating named time ranges
Modifying a named time range
Dropping a named time range
When do time range changes take effect?
[-] Identifying users and limits
Identifying heavy-usage users
Identifying heavy-usage applications
Choosing a limit type
Determining time of enforcement
Determining the scope of resource limits
[-] Understanding limit types
[+] Limiting I/O cost
[+] Limiting elapsed time
[+] Limiting the size of the result set
Setting limits for tempdb space usage
[-] Creating a resource limit
[+] Resource limit examples
[-] Getting information on existing limits
Example of listing all existing resource limits
[-] Modifying resource limits
Examples of modifying a resource limit
[-] Dropping resource limits
Examples of dropping a resource limit
[-] Resource limit precedence
Time ranges
Resource limits


User environment [Table of Contents] What are resource limits?