[Wikipedia-l] Sysop SQL queries disabled

[Rich Holton]

Is it just my imagination, or has Wikipedia been
running faster and smoother since Sysop SQL queries
were disabled?

In any event, someone somewhere did something right.
Thanks for all the efforts.

-Rich Holton (a.k.a. Anthropos)

--- Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote in part:
> Sysop SQL queries on the database are now disabled.
> If people have an 
> urgent need to perform queries and know what they're
> doing, we may be 
> able to open up access on an individual basis, but
> please be aware that 
> SQL offers many ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
> Allowing this 
> access at all is a foolish thing that we do in the
> spirit of openness 
> (like letting anyone edit our website ;) but we
> can't afford to have 
> the site go down whenever somebody makes a typo.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 


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