title: Queries against INFORMATION_SCHEMA time out
body: <p>I am using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio to connect to SQL Server 2000.</p>
  
  <pre><code>use [MyPrettyDb]
  select top 19 * from information_schema.tables
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works nice and sweet and quick. But this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select top 20 * from information_schema.tables
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Stops by timeout.</p>
  
  <p>What is the reason for the timeout?</p>
  
  <p>P.S. <code>select count(*) from information_schema.tables</code> returns quickly; there are 334 tables in the database.</p>