From: tcox@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Thomas Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.ingres,comp.databases.informix,comp.infosystems.gis,comp.databases.theory
Subject: VLDB: call for FAQ contributions
Message-ID: <1993Aug24.133456.26323@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 24 Aug 93 13:34:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Aug24.133456.26323
Followup-To: comp.databases
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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I am collecting questions for a Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] listing
on the topic of Very Large Data Bases [VLDB].

For now I'm saying a database is 'Very Large' if it exceeds _either_ one
gigabyte in total data size _or_ one million rows.  [This is a smaller
threshold than most VLDB definitions, but I want to include as many
people in the data gathering portion.]

Issues I expect to cover include OLTP, Decision Support, and Mixed Use
considerations; Indexing large tables; Compression; Clustering; Disk
Striping and I/O Load Balancing; BLOB support; SQL extensions.  We will
probably touch application areas like multimedia, OODBMSes, Geographic
Info Systems, Satellite Image storage, and Document Imaging Systems.

I _do_ expect to include overviews of commercial products and vendor
contact information.

The FAQ will not be restricted to Relational systems.  Any DBMS is fair
game.  Yes, even IMS. ;-)

Please mail to me your questions, comments, answers, FAQs, snippets,
definitions, and accumulated wisdom.  I will post a summary 30 days from
the date of this posting, and an updated summary one to two months after
that. 

PLEASE E-MAIL ONLY.  News has been unreliable at my site recently and
everything expires within a week, sometimes less.  If you post a
followup, I cannot guarantee I'll see it or include it.

If you want to post a followup and you _don't_ care whether I include it
in the summary, note that followups have been directed to comp.databases
_only_.  (If someone can suggest a more appropriate newsgroup, please
do.) 

The address to use for submissions is:

	tcox@qiclab.scn.rain.com

or you could phone me up at:

	503-590-0125

or send me snail mail at:

	Moss Consulting Group Inc.
	1001 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1100
	Portland, OR  97204

 -Tom Cox
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Thomas Cox      DoD #1776   '91 CB 750 Nighthawk   tcox@qiclab.scn.rain.com
    Worldcon:  Arkham in '98.