1. A process control system comprising: a server that has access to a database system and executes program code for the process control system; a table of process records in the database system, each process record indicating a current status of a process being controlled by the system; a table of administrative query records in the database system, each administrative query record specifying an administrative query that is associated with a query on the table of process records and with an administrative activity; and a portion of the program code which, when executed, selects one of the administrative queries for execution, executes the query associated therewith, and performs the associated administrative activity with regard to the result set returned by the associated query.