Back to the original purpose of this thread, my only response to this, once the clarification was in, is WTF?!?

SELECT * FROM Table

This query will simply scan the table. So, performance is strictly up to the hardware. How fast are your disks? How fast is your CPU? That's...

There just isn't any magic way to kill a process. If you know where the problem is, I'd concentrate on fixing it. If a transaction is opened and running, when...

For no cost, you can install PowerShell and put that to work, again using SMO. A script to generate all database objects would only be about 30 lines. I have...

You're really naming all your columns, Col1, col2... Troubleshooting and developing against that should be a lot of fun.

What kind of query are you trying to run? You don't list...

Yep, Marco has nailed it. A trace runs on an instance. You can filter the trace.

I'm a bit confused over what you're trying to do. You talk about all databases...

Can you please show what you've tried that hasn't worked. We're more than willing to help. But, we're not doing your homework for you.

There are a number of cases, certainly not a majority by any stretch of the imagination, where performance is worse in 2008 than it is in 2000. Usually this is...

Hey everyone. I'm positive one or more of you can help this guy

I haven't a clue about this, so I'm going to call in some reinforcements. Stand by.

Another option to creating an index is to create statistics. However, neither index nor statistics can be created and then automatically dropped. Any create requires a subsequent drop action on...

Assuming my family history, location, and birth would be roughly equivalent, unfortunately, farmer. I'm actually part of the first generation in my family going back 200 years on my fathers...

Jeff Moden (10/28/2010)

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Brandie Tarvin (10/28/2010)

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FYI: Aside from Demo-titis, Grant had a pretty good presentation. Wish I could go to PASS and see the full 90 minute one.

Now I'm obsessing about...

GilaMonster (10/28/2010)

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At least you didn't take on an hour and a half presentation...

Luke L (10/28/2010)

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Grant Fritchey (10/28/2010)

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Oh, that was you? Sorry I didn't wave back. Man, I...