Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Munn
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > Michael Grant wrote: > > How often does your dba create/tweak indexes? > > I am not sure, database performance tuning is a top item on my > discussion list. > If this is purely a reporting database, consider batch-generating a set of can

Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Grant
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Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Michael Grant wrote: > How often does your dba create/tweak indexes? I am not sure, database performance tuning is a top item on my discussion list. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release

Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Ian Skinner
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Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Grant
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RE: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Scott Raley
Can't you set a query timeout ? -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database! Ian Skinner wrote: > Did I get your a

RE: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Scott Raley
. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:07 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database! Scott Raley wrote: > Does this help? A couple of questions about your post Scott? What is B

Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Ian Skinner wrote: > Did I get your attention? Luckily these are read-only queries, but still! I forgot to mention an important consideration is to somehow control and mitigate query requests so that users don't tie up the database with a task taking hours and hours to process. It is already

Re: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Scott Raley wrote: > Does this help? A couple of questions about your post Scott? What is BIRT? Is that a product or something? And are your "users" corporate users or something like this where tools can be distributed to them? The latter is not true for us. This is literally anybody in t

RE: YIKES! I must let internet users write SQL queries for our database!

2009-04-23 Thread Scott Raley
We have a similar issue arising and what we decided was to mirror the database the users want to query so they are not dealing with "real time" or production.. it gets mirrored twice a day 12pm and 12am so they have near realtime data. Since its on the NAS it doesn't take long to mirror it. As for