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The Fifth International Workshop on Testing Database Systems will be held on 21 May 2012, co-located with the ACM SIGMOD Conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the complexities of testing DBMS systems and applications: There is significant interest in testing database systems [...]

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This year’s DBTEST Workshop, being organized by Florian Waas of EMC/Greenplum and Eric Lo of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is co-located with the 2012 ACM SIGMOD Conference and will be held on Monday, 21 May 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Eric and Florian, along with the workshop’s program committee which includes Guy Lohman (IBM), Jens Dittrich [...]

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DBTEST 2011 was held on Monday, one of the co-located workshops of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Athens, Greece and co-chaired by Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs. The workshop’s program featured eight short papers along with my keynote talk which I entitled The Peril of Complexity. [...]

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Yesterday, Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs announced the list of accepted papers for the upcoming 2011 DBTEST Workshop, which will be held on June 13, 2011 in Athens as one of the co-located workshops of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference. Accepted Papers This year’s Workshop features eight [...]

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Following three successful DBTEST Workshops in 2008, 2009, and 2010, the 4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems will take place on June 13th, 2011 in Athens, Greece, co-located with the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference. Goetz Graefe of HP Labs and Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo are co-chairs of this year’s DBTEST workshop, [...]

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Monday’s DBTEST 2010 Workshop at the 2010 ACM SIGMODconference in Indianapolis concluded with an interesting panel discussion that included keynote speaker Phyllis Frankl (Polytechnic Institute of NYU), Leo Giakoumakis (Microsoft), Harumi Kuno (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Ken Salem (University of Waterloo) and Florian Waas (Greenplum). Each panelist discussed what they thought the “Grand Challenges” of database and [...]

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Shivnath Babu of Duke University and I have now finalized the program for the 2010 DBTEST Workshop. The Workshop, which is co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD conference in Indianapolis, will be held on Monday 7 June 2010 in the Regency F ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Included in this year’s Workshop is a [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2010) June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference Workshop Overview New usage patterns, evolving hardware trends, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of data-processing systems. Commercial database vendors are adding new features related to ease of management, semistructured [...]

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Based on feedback from authors, Shivnath Babu and I would like to announce that we are extending the paper submission deadline for the forthcoming DBTEST 2010 Workshop, which will be co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Indianapolis on Monday, June 7. You can find the call for papers here or on the DBTEST [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2010) June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference Workshop Overview New usage patterns, evolving hardware trends, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of data-processing systems. Commercial database vendors are adding new features related to ease of management, semistructured [...]

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