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)
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Authors
- 1. Jim Gray (Tandem Computers)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gray_sigmod83,
title = {{PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN DATA MANAGEMENT -- A position paper}},
author = {Gray, Jim},
series = {{SIGMOD} '83},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/582192.582196},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582192.582196},
year = {1983}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,313 | Development of a Multimedia Information System for an Office Environment | 1984 | VLDB | 5.9161369e-05 |
| 13,229 | Conceptual-To-Internal Mappings in Commercial Database Systems | 1984 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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