A data mining system for a database management system and method and computer program product therefore, that provides improved functionality over synchronous data mining systems, and which provides features such as interruptible tasks and status output. A data mining system for a database management system comprises a plurality of data mining task objects operable to perform data mining functions, a data mining task queue table operable to maintain at least one queue to manage execution of the data mining tasks, and a data mining system task monitor operable to monitor execution of currently executing data mining tasks, examine the data mining task queue table, select at least one task for execution, dequeue data mining tasks from the data mining task queue table, and initiate execution of the dequeued tasks.