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On Wednesday this week (November 2) I had the opportunity to listen to Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo present a lecture entitled “A Scalable, Available Storage Tier for RDBMS” to the Database Systems Group at UW’s Cheriton School of Computer Science. This joint work, with co-authors Ashraf Aboulnaga and post-doctoral fellow Rui Liu, [...]

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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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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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In the latest (December 2009) edition of ACM SIGMOD Record that arrived on my desk on Wednesday, Kyu-Young Whang et al. survey [1] a selection of research prototypes and commercial DBMS products that fit the notion of a ubiquitous database. Here’s the paper’s abstract: Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database [...]

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My co-chair of the 2010 DBTEST Workshop, Shivnath Babu of Duke University, recently uploaded the majority of the presentations made at the Workshop, including Phyllis Frankl‘s keynote presentation entitled “Somebody Put a Database in My Software Testing Problem” and the short presentations given by each of the panelists, who included Ken Salem of the University [...]

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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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As mentioned previously, Mohammed Abouzour and Peter Bumbulis of Sybase iAnywhere, along with Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo, had their paper entitled “Automatic Tuning of the Multiprogramming Level in Sybase SQL Anywhere” accepted for publication at the forthcoming 5th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems which will be co-located with the IEEE Data [...]

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The 5th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, co-located with the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, takes place on 1 March 2010 in Long Beach, California. Over the weekend the SMDB 2010 Program Committee made final selections of the papers to be included in the Workshop. Out of 15 submissions the program committee [...]

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