How to display a custom "wait" cursor

I ahve a page with some heavy db access. It takes about 9 seconds for it to finish. I ahve seen on some pages that they display an animated "please wait" either as apicture on the page, or as the cursor. Is this possible to do without purchasing any components? If yes.. how? I ahve googled for answers without luck...

/Henrik

I suppose you could use the CSS Cursor style or you could use some dhtml to put an absolute positioned animated gif next to the mouse or just centered in the page.....

yeah, right, you can try CSS by using:
cursor:wait