See my reply to post entitled "How can I limit the resources used by a query"
> D4,SQL server7.0
> I have a table which has near 1,000,000 recards,when I run a time-consuming
> SQL statement, such as 'select' statement returning a large result dataset
> and with 'group by' and 'order by' clauses, the response time for other
> clients becomes unendurable.
> Thanks for any tip.
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