I’d rather play golf

Raghunath Nambiar of HP Labs sent an email to me this morning about the forthcoming Second TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, which will be co-located with the 2010 VLDB Conference in Singapore this September. This is the second TPCTC workshop, that follows a successful 2009 workshop in France last summer. The papers [...]

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One blog that I follow closely is that of Curt Monash, a well-known database industry analyst who holds a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University. In a post from 31 January 2010, Curt describes his concern about the privacy – and the potential for illegitimate use – of the massive amount of data that is [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems
(DBTest 2010)
June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, [...]

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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 selected [...]

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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 discussions [...]

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On Wednesday I attended a lecture entitled “Towards a Theory of Search Queries” presented by Dirk Van Gucht of Indiana University. The talk summarized the results that were published earlier this year in a paper [1] of the same name at the 12th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) (ACM version is here, freely available [...]

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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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As a result of our close ties with the Advanced Database Research Group at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Sybase iAnywhere is participating in, and providing funding to, an NSERC-sponsored research project, the Business Intelligence Network, or BIN. The awarding of the research grant was announced by [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I listened to Randall Burns of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University describe “Engineering the Billion-Object Authenticated Directory”, a Sybase iAnywhere-sponsored seminar at the University of Waterloo’s School of Computer Science. Here was the abstract:

Web 2.0 applications regularly store and access data from a variety of Internet storage services. Such [...]

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Chapman & Hall/CRC Press have recently launched a new book series on database systems and data management, entitled the “Emerging Directions in Database Systems and Applications” series. The series editor is Sham Navathe of Georgia Tech, who is well known for his introductory text Fundamentals of Database Systems, which he co-authored with Ramez Elmasri, now [...]

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