eProceedings

of the

Thirtieth

International Conference

on

Very Large Data Bases

Toronto, Canada

August 31 - September 3 2004

 

Industrial Session 1: Novel SQL Extensions

Returning Modified Rows - SELECT Statements with Side Effects
Andreas Behm, Serge Rielau, Richard Swagerman (IBM Toronto Lab)

PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS
Conor Cunningham, Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Goetz Graefe (Microsoft Corp.)

A Multi-Purpose Implementation of Mandatory Access Control in Relational Database Management Systems
Walid Rjaibi, Paul Bird (IBM Toronto Lab)

Industrial Session 2: New DBMS Architectures and Performance

Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations
Nagender Bandi (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Chengyu Sun (California State Univ., Los Angeles), Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)

P*TIME: Highly Scalable OLTP DBMS for Managing Update-Intensive Stream Workload
Sang K. Cha (Transact In Memory, Inc), Changbin Song (Seoul National Univ.)

Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds
Meikel Poess (Oracle Corp.), John M. Stephens, Jr. (Gradient Systems)

Industrial Session 3: Semantic Query Approaches

Supporting Ontology-based Semantic Matching in RDBMS
Souripriya Das, Eugene Chong, George Eadon, Jagannathan Srinivasan (Oracle Corp.)

BioPatentMiner: An Information Retrieval System for BioMedical Patents
Sougata Mukherjea, Bhuvan Bamba (IBM India Research Lab)

Flexible String Matching Against Large Databases in Practice
Nick Koudas, Amit Marathe, Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research)

Industrial Session 4: Automatic Tuning in Commercial DBMSs

DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design
Daniel Zilio (IBM Toronto Lab), Jun Rao (IBM Almaden), Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Lab), Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden), Adam Storm, Christian, Garcia-Arellano (IBM Toronto Lab), Scott Fadden (IBM Portland)

Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g
Benoit Dageville, Dinesh Das, Karl Dias, Khaled Yagoub, Mohamed Zait, Mohamed Ziauddin (Oracle Corp.)

Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Sanjay Agrawal, Surajit Chaudhuri, Lubor Kollar, Arun Marathe, Vivek Narasayya, Manoj Syamala (Microsoft Corp.)

Industrial Session 5: XML Implementations, Automatic Physical Design and Indexing

Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB
Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Zhen Liu, Anand Manikutty, James W. Warner, Vikas Arora, Susan Kotsovolos (Oracle Corp.)

Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database
Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Gideon Schaller, Leo Giakoumakis, Vasili Zolotov (Microsoft Corp.)

Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter Haas (IBM Almaden), Mokhtar Kandil, Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Lab), Guy Lohman, Volker Markl (IBM Almaden), Ivan Popivanov (IBM Toronto Lab), Vijayshankar Raman (IBM Almaden)

High Performance Index Build Algorithms for Intranet Search Engines
Marcus Fontoura, Eugene Shekita, Jason Zien, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andreas Neumann (IBM Almaden)

Automated Design of Multi-dimensional Clustering Tables in Relational Databases
Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Lab), Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr.)

Industrial Session 6: Data Management with RFIDs and Ease of Use

Integrating Automatic Data Acquisition with Business Processes - Experiences with SAP's Auto-ID Infrastructure (invited)
Christof Bornhövd, Tao Lin, Stephan Haller, Joachim Schaper (SAP Research)

Managing RDFI Data (invited)
Sudarshan S. Chawathe (Univ. of Maryland), Venkat Krishnamurthyy, Sridhar Ramachandran (OAT Systems), and Sanjay Sarma (MIT)

Production Database Systems: Making Them Easy is Hard Work (invited)
David Campbell (Microsoft Corp.)

Industrial Session 7: Data Management Challenges in Life Sciences and Email Systems

Managing Data from High-Throughput Genomic Processing: A Case Study (invited)
Toby Bloom, Ted Sharpe (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

Database Challenges in the Integration of Biomedical Data Sets (invited)
Rakesh Nagarajan (Washington Univ.), Mushtaq Ahmed, Aditya Phatak (Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.)

The Bloomba Personal Content Database (invited)
Raymie Stata (Stata Labs and UC Santa Cruz), Patrick Hunt (Stata Labs), Thiruvalluvan M. G. (iSoftTech Ltd.)

Industrial Session 8: Issues in Data Warehousing

Trends in Data Warehousing: A Practitioner's View (invited)
William O'Connell (IBM Toronto Lab)

Technology Challenges in a Data Warehouse (invited)
Ramesh Bhashyam (NCR Corporation)

Sybase IQ Multiplex - Designed For Analytics (invited)
Roger MacNicol, Blaine French (Sybase Inc.)