• Is google down again?

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645587.aspx

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/timchapman/archive/2012/09/10/optimizing-ad-hoc-workloads.aspx

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/plan-cache-and-optimizing-for-adhoc-workloads/

    http://www.bradmcgehee.com/2011/04/do-you-enable-optimize-for-ad-hoc-workloads/

    4 of the top 5 results from a google search for "optimize for ad-hoc workloads"

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