The following SQL Server keywords are hidden in the word search puzzle. Find them all! ALTER BETWEEN CLUSTERED COLUMN COMMIT CREATE DATABASE DEFAULT ELSE END EXECUTE EXIT FOR FUNCTION GRANT IDENTITY INSERT KEY NOCHECK NONCLUSTERED NULL OFFSETS OPENDATASOURCE OPENQUERY OPENROWSET OPENXML OPTION OVER PIVOT PRIMARY PROCEDURE RAISERROR RECONFIGURE REPLICATION RESTORE RETURN RIGHT ROLLBACK ROWCOUNT SELECT SET STATISTICS THEN TRAN TRANSACTION …

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Quite often when working testing different performance measures from the Database Health Reports to testing Resource Governor configuration I end up in a situation where I need to emulate a high CPU load on my test SQL Server. In this case it is usually my desktop or a Hyper-V virtual machine, where I want to see how things will work …

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