"Jim Starkey" <jas@...> wrote:

>
> That makes no sense to me. You can't possible predict the elapsed time
> in a loaded system since it depends on things you can't predict or even
> observe. But you say you can't predict the number of fetches, which is
> regularly reported as part of user feedback and a direct function of the
> work performed by the request.

1) "How long" generally means time, not other units. I want to be sure that
the engine responds in less than N seconds, either successfully or not.
2) And endless SP loop generates no page fetches.
3) Page fetches are now counted per database, not per request.


Dmitry