Execute an SQL query and return the result.

        :param args: additional positional arguments to be passed to cursor execute method
        :param kwargs: keyword arguments to be passed to cursor execute method
        :return: <defer>

def runQuery(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Execute an SQL query and return the result.

        :param args: additional positional arguments to be passed to cursor execute method
        :param kwargs: keyword arguments to be passed to cursor execute method
        :return: <defer>
        """
        try:
            return self._connectionPool.runQuery(*args, **kwargs)
        except:
            d = defer.Deferred()
            d.errback()
            return d