Abstract: A database query management system including a report governor and an intermediate result status storage in communication with at least one client and a server; the server further including a database, a query engine, and a formatting engine; wherein the report governor can pause a query request if system resource usage has exceeded a predetermined threshold; can pause formatting of query results if system resource usage has exceeded a predetermined threshold; and can pause report transmission to the client if data transmission to client is exceeding a predetermined threshold; thereby preventing client and server timeouts and eliminate lost work time due to these timeouts.