Production Database Systems: Making Them Easy is Hard Work

Summary: Auto-tuning production databases: from hundreds of knobs to self-configuring operation. Presents a framework enabling SQL Server to adapt to workload and environment with minimal human intervention, reducing data-management cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9328
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,792 | 12.24%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50105-4

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Authors

1. David Campbell (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{campbell_vldb04,
        title = {{Production Database Systems: Making Them Easy is Hard Work}},
        author = {Campbell, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        volume = {30},
        pages = {1196--1199},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50105-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50105-4},
        year = {2004}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
156	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00028636811

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