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Editor's Notes.
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Michael J. Franklin
Reports
Report on NGITS'99: The 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems.
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Opher Etzion
Design and Management of Data Warehouses: Report on the DMDW'99 Workshop.
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Stella Gatziu
Manfred A. Jeusfeld
Martin Staudt
Yannis Vassiliou
Articles
Timer-Driven Database Triggers and Alerters: Semantics and a Challenge.
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Eric N. Hanson
Lloyd Noronha
Diluting ACID.
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Tim Kempster
Colin Stirling
Peter Thanisch
Some Remarks on Variable Independence, Closure, and Orthographic Dimension in Constraint Databases.
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Leonid Libkin
Database Principles
Database Principles Column - Introduction.
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Leonid Libkin
On Views and XML.
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Serge Abiteboul
Influential Papers
Reminiscences on Influential Papers.
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Kenneth A. Ross
Surajit Chaudhuri
Gösta Grahne
H. V. Jagadish
Jan Van den Bussche
Moshe Y. Vardi
Industry Perspectives
FinTime - A Financial Time Series Benchmark.
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Kaippallimalil J. Jacob
Dennis Shasha
Systems & Prototypes
Practical Lessons in Supporting Large-Scale Computational Science.
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Ron Musick
Terence Critchlow
Standards
SQLJ-Part 1: SQL Routines Using the Java Programming Language.
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Andrew Eisenberg
Jim Melton
Research Surveys
A Survey of Logical Models for OLAP Databases.
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Panos Vassiliadis
Timos K. Sellis
Announcements & Calls for Papers
The Active Database Central, ER2000, VLDB 2000, WISE 2000, Books, ACM DL.
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Timos K. Sellis