(Timely Walking Dead joke ahead.)
For those of you new DBAs, the SQL Server Resource Governor was released along with SQL Server 2008 as a feature to manage your workload and system resource consumption. With Resource Governor, you can throttle allocating resources to the CPU, Memory, and IOPs appropriately, and free up resources based on importance of the application or the user. Resource Governor also allows DBAs to limit any runaway queries and throttle I/O resources that negatively impact workloads.
But of course, there are always going to be limitations to any great tool.For example, resource management is limited to the SQL Server Database Engine, andcan't be used for Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services. And there isn't any workload monitoring or workload management between SQL Server instances.
This...