SIGMOD Record - web edition / September 2008

ENTIRE ISSUE - 67 pages (in: PDF)

SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awardees (also in: PDF)

Editor's Notes (in: PDF)

Welcome Message to New SIGMOD Members (in: PDF)

2008 SIGMOD Award Winners (in: PDF)

Regular Research Articles

The Claremont Report on Database Research

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A Critique of Claude Rubinson's Paper, Nulls, Three - Valued Logic, and Ambiguity in SQL

C. J. Date
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Null Values In SQL

John Grant
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Systems and Prototypes

The Orchestra Collaborative Data Sharing System

Zack Ives, Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nicholas E. Taylor, Val Tannen, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, and Fernando Pereira
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Distinguished Database Profiles

AnHai Doan Speaks Out

Marianne Winslett
Available in: PDF
URL: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/

Open Forum

Paper and Proposal Reviews: Is the Process Flawed?

Henry Korth, Philip Bernstein, Mary Fernandez, Le Gruenwald, Phokion Kolaitis, Kathryn McKinley, and Tamer Ozsu
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The Conference Reviewing Crisis and a Proposed Solution

H. V. Jagadish
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Event Reports

DB&IR Integration: Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar "Ranked XML Querying"

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Report on the 9th Intl. Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2007)

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Announcements

Call for Nominations - ACM SIGMOD elections

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Calls for Papers/Nominations

Call for Submissions - ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award

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URL: http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/dissertation.html

Calls for Papers (2009 SIGMOD, 2009 PODS), 2009 SIGMOD Demos, Industrial Presentations, Panel Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, and Workshop Proposals

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URL: http://www.sigmod09.org/

First Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest

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URL: http://db.csail.mit.edu/sigmod09contest/

2009 SIGMOD Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

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URL: http://www.sigmod09.org