A Practical Issue Concerning Very Large Data Bases: The Need for Query Governors

Summary: Proposes query governors to prevent runaway, resource-hungry queries in large client/server/information-warehouse environments. Frames practical and theoretical aspects of governors: throttling runaway queries while preserving throughput and fairness in shared data systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8172
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 4.5435639e-05
Overall Rank: 8,327 | 42.08%
DOI: -

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1. Gerald Cohen

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12,881	The Voice of the Customer: Innovative and Useful Research Directions	1993	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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