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Posted by DA Morgan on 09/12/06 13:24
Roy Harvey wrote:
> Of course you could cheat and just pretend to show progress. I have
> long been convinced that many progress bars are fakes intended to keep
> users from getting too anxious.
In SQL Server you may or may not be correct. But other RDBMS products
do contain the ability to monitor progress, adjust for workload, and
accurately report back progress.
One example is Oracle's DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO built-in package
(http://www.psoug.org/reference/dbms_applic_info.html#aplo)
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Daniel Morgan
University of Washington
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