Intrepreting DBQL DelayTime in Teradata 13.10 - comment by carrie

When a query is manually released from the delay queue, or if a query is demoted into a workload that has a throttle whose limit has already been reached, the query count for that throttle will temporarily be allowed to be above the limit.  This means it will take longer for other queries in the delay queue to be released and run.  
 
Once a query begins executing, it is never interrupted and returned to the delay queue.
 
Thanks, -Carrie