Safely timing out DBI queries

2006-09-15 Thread Sam Tregar
Greetings all. I'm working on an app which allows users to construct queries using a web UI in a moderately free-form fashion. There's plenty of data and hence plenty of rope. I need to save my users from themselves by timing-out long-running queries and killing the MySQL thread. Our first

Another drawing tool: XCase

2006-09-15 Thread Ron Savage
Hi Folks A note on XCase has been added to: http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/drawing-tools.html -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/09/2006 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company

RE: Safely timing out DBI queries

2006-09-15 Thread CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN)
I've done something similar to what you did... It went something like this... - Run query in a separate thread. - Display dialog box to allow user to abort (instead of having fixed timeout). - If query finishes first, close dialog box, and query thread is done. - If user presses abort, cancel

RFC: proposed QDRDBMS temporary module

2006-09-15 Thread Darren Duncan
All, To set a context for this email, I will remind you, or tell you for the first time if you hadn't already heard it, that the current plans for my Rosetta RDBMS have it being written in Perl 6 only due to that language's much stronger support for its needs. And so, while you will be able