On 10/01/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/01/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It would also be good if trusted users (say, anyone whose login is over four days old) could run SQL directly on the en: database. I have a few outer joins I really really need to check.
In an ideal world, you could use the toolserver for it. The problem with trusting people to run even select queries on the English Wikipedia database is that trust does not equal sufficient SQL ability to write queries which do not suck up all our time, even with Tim's natty timeout script.
I WAS JOKING. I SWEAR TO GOD.
- d.