1. An apparatus comprising: a computer system comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a query created by a user of the computer system; a query governor in the memory and when executed by the processor limits the query accessing the database based on a tailored threshold that is unique to the query, where the tailored threshold is dynamically generated by the query governor by applying at least one factor to a fixed threshold.
1. An apparatus comprising: a computer system comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a query created by a user of the computer system; a query governor in the memory and when executed by the processor limits the query accessing the database based on a tailored threshold that is unique to the query, where the tailored threshold is dynamically generated by the query governor by applying at least one factor to a fixed threshold. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one factor used to generate the tailored threshold comprises one or more factors chosen from: a user factor, a query factor, a job priority factor, a resource load factor, or an application factor.