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Entries from March 2011

SQL Anywhere I/O Requirements – a new whitepaper

March 30th, 2011 · Comments Off

Today we published a whitepaper entitled “SQL Anywhere I/O Requirements for Windows and Linux”, authored by SQL Anywhere engineering. The whitepaper outlines in detail the I/O requirements of SQL Anywhere servers on Windows and Linux platforms to ensure database recovery in the event of media and/or power failure. Here is its abstract: Database servers need [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Operating systems

Call for Participation: SMDB 2011

March 28th, 2011 · Comments Off

The 6th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2011) will take place on 11 April 2011, in conjunction with the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering in Hannover, Germany. SMDB is organized by the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems, which is chaired by Guy Lohman of IBM Almaden. This year’s [...]

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Tags: Computer Science education · Self-managing database systems

DBTEST 2010 paper submission deadline is approaching

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off

The submission deadline for the 4th Annual Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTEST) is coming up in the next few weeks – the submission deadline 28 March 2011. Chaired by Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs, DBTEST offers the opportunity for academic and industrial researchers to gain mutual [...]

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Tags: Computer Science education