A Practical Issue Concerning Very Large Data Bases: The Need for Query Governors
Gerald S Cohen · Very Large Data Bases · 1993
The popularity of client/server technology coupled with the concept of the ‘Information Warehouse’ as a ten tral place where end users come to access large organization data bases has some problems that have not received much study. One of these problems is the danger of incxpericnced users formulating ‘run away’ queries which consume excessive computer resources while impacting all other users. The construction of query governors to prevent this is a major practical problem, as well as theoretical problem.