diff --git a/gulliver/thirdparty/creole/drivers/mysql/MySQLConnection.php b/gulliver/thirdparty/creole/drivers/mysql/MySQLConnection.php
index 0202cacb0..d3c8a05ee 100755
--- a/gulliver/thirdparty/creole/drivers/mysql/MySQLConnection.php
+++ b/gulliver/thirdparty/creole/drivers/mysql/MySQLConnection.php
@@ -198,8 +198,16 @@ class MySQLConnection extends ConnectionCommon implements Connection {
             }
         }//echo $sql . '<br /><br />';
         $result = @mysql_query($sql, $this->dblink);
+
         if (!$result) {
-            throw new SQLException('Could not execute query', mysql_error($this->dblink), $sql);
+            if (!defined('DEBUG_SQL')) {
+                define('DEBUG_SQL', 0);
+            }
+            if (DEBUG_SQL == 1) {
+                throw new SQLException('Could not execute query', mysql_error($this->dblink), $sql);
+            } else {
+                throw new SQLException('It is not possible to execute the query. Please contact your system administrator');
+            }
         }
         return new MySQLResultSet($this, $result, $fetchmode);
     }
diff --git a/workflow/engine/classes/class.applications.php b/workflow/engine/classes/class.applications.php
index 97410fe81..154416a77 100755
--- a/workflow/engine/classes/class.applications.php
+++ b/workflow/engine/classes/class.applications.php
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ class Applications
     ) {
         $callback = isset($callback)? $callback : "stcCallback1001";
         $dir = isset($dir)? $dir : "DESC";
+
+        if (isset($sort)) {
+            G::LoadClass('phpSqlParser');
+            $parser = new PHPSQLParser($sort);
+            $sort = $parser->parsed;
+            $sort = $sort[''][0];
+        }
+
         $sort = isset($sort)? $sort : "";
         $start = isset($start)? $start : "0";
         $limit = isset($limit)? $limit : "25";
@@ -493,10 +501,10 @@ class Applications
 
         //execute the query
         $oDataset = AppCacheViewPeer::doSelectRS( $Criteria );
-        
+
         $oDataset->setFetchmode( ResultSet::FETCHMODE_ASSOC );
         $oDataset->next();
-//g::pr($oDataset);
+        //g::pr($oDataset);
         $result = array ();
         $result['totalCount'] = $totalCount;
         $rows = array ();
diff --git a/workflow/public_html/sysGeneric.php b/workflow/public_html/sysGeneric.php
index 96dd851e8..4225e2da2 100755
--- a/workflow/public_html/sysGeneric.php
+++ b/workflow/public_html/sysGeneric.php
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ ini_set( 'soap.wsdl_cache_enabled', $config['wsdl_cache'] );
 ini_set( 'date.timezone', $config['time_zone'] );
 
 define( 'DEBUG_SQL_LOG', $config['debug_sql'] );
+define( 'DEBUG_SQL', $config['debug'] );
 define( 'DEBUG_TIME_LOG', $config['debug_time'] );
 define( 'DEBUG_CALENDAR_LOG', $config['debug_calendar'] );
 define( 'MEMCACHED_ENABLED', $config['memcached'] );