How to determine a sql query size to display a progress bar

I would like to show a progress of an sql query within a jsp page.
Background:
I have a reporting web application, where over 500 contacts can run reports based on different criteria such as date range....
I current display a message stating 'executng query please wait', however the users (hate users) do not seem to wait, thereofore they decide to run the query all over again which affected my reportign sever query size (eventually this crashes, stopping all reports)
Problem:
The progress bar is not a problem, how would I determine the size of the query at runtime therefore adding the time onto my progress bar.

Yes it's doable (we do it) but it sure ain't easy.
We've got about 23,500,000 features (and counting) in a geodata database. Precise spatial selection algorithms are expensive. Really expensive.
We cannot impose arbitrary limits on search criteria. If the client requires the whole database we are contractually obligated to provide it...
For online searches We use statistics to approximate the number of features which a given query is likely to return... more or less the same way that the query optimiser behind any half decent (not mysql (5 alteast)) database management system does.
We have a batch job which records how many features are linked to each distinct value of each search criteria... we just do the calculations (presuming a normal (flat) distribution) and...
... if the answer is more than a 100,000 we inform the user that the request must be "batched", and give them a form to fill out confirming there contact details. We run the extract overnight and send the user an email containing a link which allows them to download the result the next morning.
... if the answer is more than a million features we inform the user that the request must batched over the weekend... same deal as above, except we do it over the weekend to (a) discourage this; and (b) the official version ensure we have enough time to run the extract without impinging upon the maintenance window.
... if the answer is more than 5 million we display our brilliant "subscribe to our DVD service to get the latest version of the whole shebang every three months (or so), so you can kill your own blooody server with these ridiculous searches" form.
Edited by: corlettk on Dec 5, 2007 11:12 AM

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How to schedule a sql query on Windows

Hi Experts;
I got a sql query that I need to put on schedule, (on windows) in order it runs everyday at specific time.
I got the query, but I want to know the next:
How to invoke SQLPlus from this query? Explain how to include the user/password@SID
Do I need to create this query in a .bat file?
Also I want to know, how to send the results to an email?
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Al

I would suggest to put your sql query to a separate file and spool the result to a concrete file:
query.sql:
spool query.lst
select * from emp;
spool off;create a bat file query.bat:
sqlplus <connection> @query.sql
...work with content of query.lst, send mail etcThen schedule your bat file with Windows scheduler
The above could be simplified with JavaScript or VBScript
Thanks.

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