Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 156
You can do something similar to the divided-inserts in a SQL Server cluster, assuming your table is partitioned appropriately, but I agree that it doesn't sound like the same thing... and is a lot more fiddly.
Oh, and if you want to enforce query timeouts, that is supported in the user profile via CPU_PER_CALL (non-conforming queries are terminated and resources released)
In SQL Server, you can use "sp_configure 'query governor cost limit', xxxx" to do something very similar. It's elapsed time, not CPU time, but has the same basic effect.
