# How to safely cancel a database query

DevFeed: [How to safely cancel a database query](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-safely-cancel-a-database-query-18520.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/how-to-safely-cancel-a-database-query>)

Author: Iván Malagón

Published: 2025-04-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-excellence.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents an approach for safely canceling database queries while avoiding data corruption, resource leaks, and problematic edge cases.

## Source excerpt

How to safely cancel a database query without corrupting data or leaving resources hanging. This approach handles edge cases cleanly.