> From: Dimitry Sibiryakov
> I don't think so. Of course, possibility to cancel long
> queries is nice but not very useful. If you run a wrong
> query against your debug database... Well, shutdown the
> server. If somebody runs a long query against a work
> database... This person, definitely, wants results and
> cancelling the query doesn't make sense. If the person
> doesn't want results... Hmm... Kick this good-for-nothig
> person's ass and shutdown the server ( ;) ), because you
> can't cancel other's query anyway.

If the person doesn't want results... kill the application, not the whole server.
Unlike IB5, in IB6 it works pretty good, (provided you are connected via tcp/ip)
i.e. server will notice that the client is dead and cancels
execution of query (even if it is in the middle of sorting).

Ivan
http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase