Solution to the long running query problem in a web application (asynchronous request)

Question

Here is the problem

A user of an enterprise web application is performing a task that results in a long (very long) database query (or other long processing intensiv

Answer 1

Show a message to the user that "Your request is accepted and will take an hour to get updated"

You create a table which stores all these transactions and process these in a batch on server.

User would not have to wait for long and he will be happy to see the message. You can send a confirmation email once your the transaction is processed.

This is the best solution I think.