http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Advanced Querying, SQL Server 7, 2000, Configuring posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Have you ever had the problem where a user ran a query against your SQL Serer and crashed it or made the server unusable since the CPU was spiked at 100%? A SQL Server black box is the equivalent of a flight data record. The black box records all queries being passed to your SQL Server and other useful information like errors. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/blackbox/954/2003/04/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/blackbox/954/