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In a few weeks, on May 21, 2012, this year’s DBTest workshop will take place colocated with SIGMOD in Scottsdale, Arizona. DBTest is a great forum for practitioners and academics alike to exchange ideas and experiences regarding quality aspects of data … Continue reading →

Check out the latest publication from Greenplum Engineering at this year’s SMDB — ICDE’s workshop on Self-managing Database Systems. One of the authors was an intern during last summer and we asked him to do an investigation into how data … Continue reading →

After a long day of interviews, I wrapped up with a candidate the other day. Among other things, I tend to ask our guests what they’ve learned about the team, the position, and the company. Turns out, this particular candidate … Continue reading →

Ever wondered what the Golden Gate Bridge would look like if software engineers had been tasked to build it? Chances are, after the first brainstorming, one engineer starts building a prototype — maybe over the weekend. One lane, using limestone, … Continue reading →

DBA’s the world over dread the day when their boss walks into their office and announces that it is time to expand the Enterprise Data Warehouse, the company’s crown jewel. While not a pleasant operation on single-node databases it means … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, the latest edition of the DBTest workshop took place. As in the years before, the workshop was held in connection with SIGMOD, meant to draw a good crowd of practitioners. And draw it did: the gathering … Continue reading →

We’ve seen quite a number of papers co-authored by folks from our R&D organization. The latest addition is by Mohamed Soliman at this year’s SIGMOD conference. Find the paper here.

Dealing with plan regressions caused by changes to the query optimizer has been a royal pain for any development organization. Even if you manage to shield your customers with clever tricks from experiencing these in their end-user workloads, plan regressions … Continue reading →

Performance evaluation with benchmarks has a long-standing tradition in the database industry and it has become customary to use benchmarks to underline the usefulness of many an idea in research papers over the past decades. Besides testing a system with … Continue reading →

A few days ago a frustrated recruiter from an agency we have been using on and off for a while wrote to me I [come] to the conclusion that your standards are impossibly high.  I don’t see myself being able … Continue reading →