SQL Server 2008 Resource Governor in action
One of the biggest headaches in SQL Server 2005 is trying to manage resources where there are competing workloads on a shared server. A typical approach is to use instances, but this completely hides memory and CPU from other instances which are then not available to an instance under stress whether the other instances are using them or not.
The resource governor in SQL Server 2008 fixes that and I have a short blogcast here to demo how this works...
