Nigel Weeks wrote:

>Have a 'MaxExecutionTime' parameter somewhere?
>
>I'll raid my piggybank to sponsor it!
>
>(Just the thing to stop long-running queries from hogging the system for
>ever, and
>to force my developers to write proper queries the first time!)
>
>
>

I agree that there is a problem there, but I'm not sure that's a very
good solution since it might stop both bad queries *and* backups.

There have been quite a few very good solutions proposed, but none of
candidates to slip into a product in beta.

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Jim Starkey
Netfrastructure, Inc.
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