I completely agree. Without wanting to be unnecessarily harsh, I'm concerned that the original poster has put up a list of superficial fixes which will *just about* get views...

Hiya

If you check the MSDN topic for @@CPU_Busy - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186925.aspx - it says explicitly that "Result is in CPU time increments, or "ticks," and is cumulative for all...