Database miscellaneous: October 2007 Archives

Mike Stonebraker offers his personal highlights of VLDB 2007, including a historical note on RDBMS design, the need to improve database administration interfaces, new capabilities and tools from Yahoo!, and some thoughts on the OLPC project. Continue reading "Thoughts on the VLDB conference" »

Ten years after its publication, Mitch Cherniack looks at the relevancy and applicability of the "The Database Warehouse Toolkit." He discusses four issues that he contends reveal the deficiencies of traditional relational row-store OLTP engines when used for data warehouse applications. Continue reading "Reflections on the Kimball Data Warehouse "Bible": Time for a New Testament?" »