is there a way to modify the behavior of this new 'future'?
when viewing the different types (windows, Database Mail, SQL Agent and
so on) of event in the Log File Viewer using check box (under 'select
log' panel'), the 'progress' panel kept spinning thru the whole record
set and there's no way to stop/pause it. sometimes it can take a long
time and that's really annonying!

random select a row based a weight column.
Timeout expire
store results over network
Variable table name in a cursor declaration
dynamic SQL versus a huge IF structure