Does anyone know of a way to stop large queries from running on an AS2005 instance, similar to the SQL2005 'query governor cost limit' configuration option? I want to stop users running large queries from apps like Excel, and bringing the server to a grinding halt.
Thanks
The only thing that I am aware of that comes close to this is the query timeout parameter see: http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!932.entry unfortunately it is retrospective in that it will not evaluate the cost of the query before it runs, rather if the query has been running for too long it will kill it.