> I have a different view than the approach that BORL took and found that Toni
> Martir (IBAccess) and other few people have similar ideas.

It sounds the right way to go to me.

> A user can cancel its queries.
> Sysdba of course can kill any query.
> Not restricted to that, we could bind special roles to quotas. IE some users
> can't execute a request for more than 10 minutes or the request is
> terminated automatically... but I'm dreaming.

That does not sound like dreaming, if the core engine is
right, the bells and whistles follow on. In my case, if the
query takes more than 1 minute there is a problem - it would
be nice to prevent it crashing the whole network <g>

> Using a SQL interface to manage those issues has advantages and
> disadvantages. Other people will prefer to expand the Services API to get
> and modify the same information.

I get the feeling that Borland are Services based, but that
Interbase was SQL based until Borland got hold of it. Is
there any reason why Firebird can't follow the 'pure' root
<g>

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