PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN DATA MANAGEMENT -- A position paper

Summary: Position paper for closer theory–practice integration; urges studying practitioner system descriptions. Highlights hard problems: 10k TPS on tiny databases, automated physical design, and live-change management; cites FastPath, Star, Lisa. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2202
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 6.5169324e-05
Overall Rank: 4,027 | 71.99%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jim Gray

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,310	Development of a Multimedia Information System for an Office Environment	1984	VLDB	5.1165894e-05
13,030	Conceptual-To-Internal Mappings in Commercial Database Systems	1984	PODS	4.1945683e-05

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