I connect to mysql from my Linux shell. Every now and then I run a SELECT query that is too big. It prints and prints and I already know this is not what I meant. I would like to stop the query.

Hitting Ctrl+C (a couple of times) kills mysql completely and takes me back to shell, so I have to reconnect.  

Is it possible to stop a query without killing mysql itself?


Question: Is there a word specifically referring to the stand upon which a large book is displayed, opened to a page?
Answer: "Book stand" is the natural choice. 

A tall book stand such as you describe is a "freestanding book stand". Woodform, Inc. uses this term, and they seem to know what they're talking about! They also refer to a "dictionary stand".

Otherwise, a "podium" is


  a stand with a slanted surface that holds a book, notes, etc., for
  someone who is reading, speaking, or teaching


Or, if you want get poetic, there is "pedestal" or "plinth".