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This past July, when Duke University’s Shivnath Babu presented his talk on Starfish at the University of Waterloo, Shivnath invited my team to contribute a paper to a special forthcoming issue of the IEEE Technical Bulletin on Data Engineering, to be published this December. This special issue, edited by Shivnath and Kai-Uwe Sattler of Germany’s [...]

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This past Monday I listened to Shivnath Babu of Duke University present a lecture entitled “MADDER and Self-tuning data analytics on Hadoop with Starfish“. In a nutshell, the Starfish project is about the development of self-tuning and self-managing technology for Hadoop systems, and many of the same challenges that exist in self-managing relational database systems, [...]

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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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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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This past Friday we received word from Christian S. Jensen, the Workshops chair of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference, that our workshop proposal for the 3rd International Workshop on Testing Database Systems had been approved. Building on the two previously-held workshops in Vancouver in 2008 and in Providence in 2009, this third Workshop will continue [...]

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Despite our efforts at making relational database systems such as SQL Anywhere self-managing, self-tuning, and self-healing, there remains the need to be able to diagnose and repair performance problems. In part, this requirement is due to the overall complexity of the optimization task. Query optimization is – still – an NP-hard problem and the input [...]

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The forthcoming 2010 Workshop on Self-managing Database Systems will be held on March 1, 2010, collocated with the 2010 IEEE Data Engineering conference in Long Beach, California. In early October, Shivnath Babu, PC chair for SMDB 2010, along with the Executive Committee of the IEEE Workgroup on Self-managing Database Systems announced an extension to the [...]

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