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From: finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Subject: CFP: CIKM-92, November 8-11, 1992,  Baltimore MD USA
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:50:05 GMT

	       C A L L    F O R    P A R T I C I P A T I O N
				      
				  CIKM-92
		     First International Conference on
		    INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
				      
			   November 8 - 11, 1992
		       Radisson Lord Baltimore Hotel
			  Baltimore, Maryland, USA
				      
CIKM-92 will provide an international forum for the presentation and 
discussion of research on the management of information and knowledge.
The scope of the conference will cover the integration database
technology, knowledge representation and reasoning, information retrieval,
and techniques for locating and accessing relevant data and knowledge in
very large, distributed information systems.

The conference will include 18 invited talks, 68 submitted papers, 24 poster
presentations, panel sessions and tutorials. The keynote address will be by
Gio Wiederhold (DARPA/Stanford) on "Intelligent Integration of Diverse
Information Sources".  Other invited speakers include Maria Zemenkova (NSF),
Amit Sheth (Bellcore), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Peter Buneman (Pennsylvania),
Doug Terry (Xerox Parc), Bob Robbins (Johns Hopkins), Joan Sullivan (NIST),
Bharat Bhargava (Purdue), David Waltz (Thinking Machines/Brandeis), Len
Gallagher (NIST), Ahmed Elmagarmid (Purdue), Richard Soley (Object
Management Group), Larry Reeker (IDA), Bruce Blum (Johns Hopkins), and
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel).

For additional electronic information, send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU
to receive an automatic reply containing registration forms and a draft of
the advance program.  To receive a copy of the advance program or for
detailed information on registration, contact: Maryann Sullivan, ISMM, Six
Forks Road, Raleigh NC 27615 USA, voice: 919-847-3747, fax: 919-676-0666.

CIKM-92 is sponsored by ISMM and the University of Maryland Baltimore County
and held in cooperation with AAAI, IEEE, and ACM (SIGART and SIGIR).





Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: swfc@cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen)
Subject: Transaction Processing book
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:29:39 GMT

For those interested in transaction processing (which, IMHO, should be
everybody ;-), Gray and Reuter's book "Transaction Processing:
Concepts and Techniques" is (finally) out.  The book is a good
companion to Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman's book "Concurrency
Control and Recovery in Database Systems."

Cheers,
*swfc
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Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: wong@loral.CTS.COM (Cecelia Wong)
Subject: Please suggest book on designing databases
Organization: Loral Instrumentation
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:43:29 GMT


An assignment at work as suddenly dropped me into the world
of database design ^_^.  As I am completely new to this subject,
I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction by
suggesting a good book. I am looking for something that will
describe and compare the different methods for designing and
managing databases (relational, object oriented, etc.) and provide
instruction on designing good databases. (I am also hoping for
something that is, shall I say, non-sleep-material for a novice ^_^,
but if that's too much to ask for then I'll just settle for the
above ^_^.)

One question I have is that if I design a database based on one
method (for example, I've heard that good relational databases
are based on levels of normalization) will the design be incompatable
with other methods (for example, object oriented databases)? Or is
a good database a good database no matter what?

I hope I'm not being idiotic by asking FAQ questions - I hate when
that happens ^_^ - but I couldn't find an FAQ.


Thanks in Advance,
Cecelia
wong@loral.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: jah@cs.mu.OZ.AU (James Harland)
Subject: Programme for the  Workshop on Deductive Databases at JICSLP'92
Originator: jah@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Reply-To: jah@cs.mu.OZ.AU (James Harland)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:23:50 GMT



			Workshop Programme

		Workshop on Deductive Databases

	         Saturday, 14 November, 1992

		    in conjunction with the
       Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming
		November 9-13, 1992, Washington D.C., USA



8.30 --- 9.00 Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagiv, Oded Shmueli
Equivalence, Query-Reachability and Satisfiability in Datalog Extensions

9.00 --- 9.30 Zahidul A. Khandaker, Jose A. Fernandez, Jack Minker 
A Tractable Class of Disjunctive Deductive Databases

9.30 --- 10.00 Inderpal Singh Mumick, Kenneth A. Ross 
An Architecture for Declarative Object-Oriented Databases 

10.00 --- 10.30 
Alexandre Lefebvre, Peter Bernus, Rodney Topor 
Query Transformation for Accessing Heterogenous Databases  

10.30 --- 11.00  Break  

11.00 --- 11.30  
Devin E. Smith 
An Integrated Reactor Physics and Source Term Calculation Based on
Deductive Database Principles   

11.30 --- 12.00 
Jiawei Han, Tong Lu 
N-Queens Problem Revisited: A Deductive Database Approach  

12.00 --- 1.30 Lunch  

1.30 --- 2.00  
John Harrison, Suzanne W. Dietrich 
Maintenance of Materialized Views in Deductive Databases: An Update
Propagation Approach  

2.00 --- 2.30 
Ashish Gupta, Dinesh Katiyar, Inderpal Singh Mumick 
Counting Solutions to the View Maintenance Problem 

2.30 --- 3.00  
Ashish Gupta, Jeffrey D. Ullman  
Generalizing Conjunctive Query Containment for View Maintenance and
Integrity Constraint Verification   

3.00 --- 3.30  Break  

3.30 --- 4.00  
Hakan Jakobsson 
On Join-Order Optimal Compositions and Optimizing Recursive Queries 

4.00 --- 4.30  
Ling Liu, Jiawei Han 
Counting Compressed Method 

4.30 --- 5.00  
Shinichi Morishita 
An alternating fixpoint tailored to magic programs 

5.00 --- 5.30 
Surajit Chaudhuri
Finding Nonrecursive Envelopes for Recursive Datalog Predicates


	There were a further 8 papers accepted for the workshop. However,
as there was only one day available, it was not possible to allow each
accepted paper to be presented at the workshop. 


Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: pazandak@milli.cs.umn.edu (Paul Pazandak)
Subject: Use of multiple concurrency control methods within a DBMS
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:45:54 GMT

I am looking for any articles or actual DBMSs which implement multiple
concurrency control methods in any way. For example, use of 2PL & T/O.

 
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: swfc@cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen)
Subject: Re: Transaction Processing book
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:12:27 GMT

Here is some more info about the book:

Transaction Processing: concepts and techniques
Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993
ISBN 1-55860-190-2

Dept. G1
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
2929 Campus Dr., Ste. 260
San Mateo, CA 94403
Toll Free from US/Canada: (800) 745-7323 
FAX orders: (415) 578-0672

According to Morgan Kaufmann, the book was printed the 18th of
September, but they were having problems shipping them out.  I got the
book in the McGraw-Hill bookstore in NYC this week.

*swfc
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Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: nibhanum@fornax.cs.rpi.edu (Mohan Nibhanupudi)
Subject: Re: Nested, distributed transactions
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:35:59 GMT

In article <BvrtzI.C9v@suite.com> gladish@suite.suite.com (Brian Gladish) writes:
>After finding limited discussion of nested, distributed transactions in
>two distribute database texts (Oszu and Bell) I am in search of other  
>references.  Actually, references discussing nested transaction handling
>in centralized databases would be of interest also.
>
>Brian

Here is one reference: It's a 1981 MIT PhD Thesis.

Nested Transactions: An approach to Reliable Distributed Computing
by J Eliot B Moss, 1985,
MIT press, Cambridge, Massachussetts.

Mohan

Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: senis@cc.gatech.edu (Senis Busayapongchai)
Subject: Multimedia database
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:30:36 GMT


Does anybody have a compiled list of articles in multimedia database?

Senis

					
					-Senis Busayapongchai (senis@cc.gatech.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
From: gladish@suite.suite.com (Brian Gladish)
Subject: Nested, distributed transactions
Organization: Suite Software, Anaheim CA.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:50:05 GMT

After finding limited discussion of nested, distributed transactions in
two distribute database texts (Oszu and Bell) I am in search of other  
references.  Actually, references discussing nested transaction handling
in centralized databases would be of interest also.

Brian
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: jonm@Ingres.COM (WHT WLD TH WRLD B LK WTHT VWLS???)
Subject: Re: simple (maybe) SQL question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: 
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:10:32 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.185832.24025@banana.fedex.com>, blaine@banana.fedex.com (blaine robertson)    writes...
>I need the ability to extract 5 entries from table #1 that currently has
>10000 entries in it and then join them with table #2.  
> 
>Based upon my limited knowledge of SQL I only know how to join the
>entire sum of tables #1 and #2 and then parse out what I need by
>'where' statements.  As you can see, the way I'm doing things now is
>verryy sloww!!
> 

Why do you need to do it with one statement?

Try create junktable as select ....
			from #1
			where....;

select from junktable, #2
where....

No massive cart prod

Is this what you wanted???

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: mazzucch@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (massimo mazzucchi)
Subject: CLIPPER AND SCANNER
Keywords: clipper and scanner
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:46:13 GMT


Hi

I am a programmer with CLIPPER
i want know

- what is the library that permit to use image with scanner
  with clipper

  - what is the bbs where i can have to access to get
    this librAry


    Thanks for your help

    My address is mazzucch@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it


    Bye
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: igrdb@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Gringer)
Subject: Hints for OCELOT needed
Organization: tu-chemnitz
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:38:07 GMT

Hello everywhere,

Anyone told me, that there is a DBMS - Library called
OCELOT. It works with DOS and is delivered for PASCAL,
C and so on. Can someone give me a hint, especially

	a) What exactly is "OCELOT"
	b) How works it (how can I use it)
	c) Performance 
	d) Are there any books about it?

Thanks in advance!

Ingo

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: soley@trop32.enet.dec.com (Norm Soley)
Subject: Re: Is ULTRIX/SQL free after buying ULTRIX ?
Organization: Digital Equipment of Canada
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:14:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.122955.20004@cis.ohio-state.edu> doug@bear.cis.ohio-state.edu (Doug Kerr) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.105726.15370@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> rfrx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>Hi.  My research group is considering using ULTRIX/SQL.  I've heard that
>>ULTRIX/SQL is free if one has already bought the ULTRIX operating system.
>>Can anyone confirm this?
>
>Yes you do get ULTRIX/SQL.  However what that means is that you get
>the database engine and two SQL interface, one for "dumb terminals",
>the other for windowing and using function keys.  That interface
>allows you to execute d SQL statements and display the results.
>However you do not get anything else, e.g. a programming language
>interface (C, Fortran, etc.), a 4GL, or a report writer.  You must pay
>for all of those.

That should say "Yes you DID get ULTRIX/SQL". As of Version 4.3 of
ULTRIX ULTRIX/SQL is no longer included with the operating system. If
you have a previous version of ULTRIX both Oracle and Ingres are
currently offering promotionally priced upgrades from ULTRIX/SQL to the 
current versions of their products. 

If you have a DEC layered product which uses ULTRIX/SQL you may still
have a limited licence for some time to come but it will come with the 
layered product not the OS. 

-- 
    Norman Soley, Specialist, Digital Integrations Services,  ITC District
    Digital Equipment of Canada                   soley@trooa.enet.dec.com
    Opinions expressed are mine alone  and do not reflect those of Digital 
    Equipment Corporation or my cat Marge.
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sys.novell
From: demattei@cs.unibo.it (Sandro De_Matteis)
Subject: Clipper 5.01 problems
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:08:34 GMT

Hi Internet world,
i have some problems with Clipper 5.01 (greatest xBase compiler).

1- When i link my application with Rtlink with a PLL with /PLL:xxx.PLL switch,
   i get the message "error est0001: illegal format in loadable format file" 
   when i try to run the application from dos command line or from OS/2 2.0
   VDM command line. If i try to run the application from Norton Commander
   (press enter on the .exe file) all go right and the application starts.
   I haven't found documentation about this error in manual nor in Norton 
   Guide.

2- In memoedit() function i can specify a user function, but if i specify a
   function that is in same module all go right, but if i specify a function
   in some other module the function i have specify never be call. There is
   a solution ?

3- Can i use both /INCREMENTAL and /PLL:xxx.PLL switchs when i link my 
   applications ?

4- If you are interested in Clipper library and source exchange send me a 
   message by mail.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I am sorry in my ugly english !!!

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From: naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren B.)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Effect of Compression on .dbf and .db files
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:22:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: tekig7.7268
Distribution: na
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

Has anyone lost information  due to the compression of .dbf and .db 
(Paradox tables) files  ? Are there any other things you have to watch out ?
When I mean compress compression, I mean using UNIX compression command. 
Thanks
** Naren **
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From: derek@pooky.cs.mun.ca (Derek Gould)
Subject: Re: Foxpro - help with radio button objects
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:33:53 GMT

In article <fragante.718321710@unixg.ubc.ca> fragante@unixg.ubc.ca (Gv Fragante) writes:
>Does anyone have a method of deselecting a radio button ?

Why are you using a radio button? By its very nature, a radio button is
designed so that at least/most one option is selected from a list of options.
If that is not what you want, I'd suggest using a different approach, i.e.
a push button with a _SMART_ validation clause.

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan)
Subject: Re: Clipper Windows Version
Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:49:32 GMT

mtoms@ems.cdc.com (Mark Toms) writes:

>Wasn't the Clipper product bought by Computer Associates?

Yup. And, if it ever *does* see the light of day, it will probably be
outrageously expensive like their other PC-based products.

MD
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From: vlb@whitney.UUCP (Virginia L. Baca)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Help Desks
Keywords: Hotline
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:23:22 GMT
Organization: IMA Inc., Anaheim, CA

I am looking for a good Help Desk/Hotline software
package.

I understand one was reviewed recently in Computer
World.  Have you ever tried to get info from
Computer World on published articles?

Does anyone have any information they would be
willing to share or point me to a good source
for this information.
From: eramos@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: databases in astrophysics
Date: 10 Oct 92 21:03:50 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.


    I'm looking for a good reference in "Database requierements for astro-
 physical research (x-ray and gamma-ray). Any suggestion?

 Elio Ramos
 CSI/Institute
 George Mason University
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: costello@mbunix.mitre.org (Costello)
Subject: Consolidating Databases
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:07:19 GMT

Hi Folks,

TOP LEVEL SUMMARY

   I have been tasked to try and consolidate 3 databases into a single
database.  I am looking to see who else has attempted such a thing
and what tools might be available to help automate this process.

DETAILS

  I have 3 different applications that were developed at different times
and by different people.  Each application developed their own database.
Each application has some data that is unique to the application but
there is quite a lot over overlap.  However, where there is overlap
there are some differences.  For example, one application may have
declared the data element to be CHAR(7) while another may have declared
it to be CHAR(6), and one database may call the employee EMP while
another may call it EMPL, etc.  So, to consolidate the databases I
need to discover what data elements are shared by the 3 applications,
what are unique, and then among the shared data elements I need to
play detective and uncover the disguises of each data element.  Then,
I will standardize the names.  I would like to use as many tools as
possible to help with this endeavor.  What are your thoughts?

Thanks for any help you can provide.  Cheers!  /Roger

Please respond to:

   costello@mitre.org

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: oblum@email.bony.com
Subject: RE: Interbase database product by Borland
Organization: ***
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:36:24 EDT

RE: Interbase database

We are currently looking at converting our DEC RDB database to a 
multi-platform distributed database. 
Has anyone who used the Interbase database product willing to share 
comments and experiences (pro and con)?

              DBSEARCH
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Approach for Windows (xbase etc. front end)
From: bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:45:20 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

In article <1992Oct8.191654.27392@panix.com> eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin) writes:
>Just got a flyer in the mail for a product called "Approach for Windows",
>which claims to be a user-friendly front end for Dbase, Paradox, Alpha 4,
>and other databases, letting you cross reference difference databases,
>write your programs with Windows GUI, and similiar.  It's "only" $129 and
>promises lots.  Anyone out there have any experience with Approach and can
>advise on its merits?

  I have had version 1.01 for several months. I have had Superbase 2 for
  several years. I like Approach better 8-)

  On the other hand, I just got the upgrade card for Approach 2.0 (for
  $49) and I would definitely recommend upgrading.  LOTS of NEW features 
  including support for BLOBS, OLE, macros, etc.

  Just remember that Approach is a "user's database" rather than a
  programmer's database, and the emphasis is on visual construction
  blocks.


Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: mccon@ssdd475a.erim.org (Joe McConnell)
Subject: Re: PARADOX 4.0 - How can I print structures?
In-reply-to: Tom Ascher's message of Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 15:25:53 CDT
Organization: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:23:42

When you do Tools/Info/Structure, the output is a set -- you can
report off that set just like any other set.
--
Joe McConnell  | Opinions expressed are the   | Don't blame me!  I voted for
mccon@erim.org | author's, not the employer's.| Stephen Maturin!
From: lmiller@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (louis.e.miller)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
Subject: Re: Use of HLC in the US
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:23:07 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Pardon the brief tutorial about ISDN in the US, but it may be helpful
to non-US readers.  Answering whether some ISDN feature works in the US
is not an easy task.  The US has many Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and
several long distance carriers.  Each of these carriers has the potential
to implement ISDN in a different way.  (These differences may be in the
technical implementation or in the offered/tarrifed service.)  This can
cause many headaches.

I will give a few examples that may not be true but will highlight the
idea.  A call from New York Telephone via AT&T via BT to London may
support different features than a call from New York Telephone via MCI via
BT to London, or NYT via AT&T via Mercury to London, or NYT via MCI via
Mercury to London.  A call from New Jersey Bell via AT&T via KDD via NTT
to Tokyo may be different that New York Telephone via AT&T via KDD via NTT
to Tokyo.  I'm sure you get the idea.

This does not even address potential effects like the type of terminal
that originated the call (POTS, PRI with ISDN sets, PRI with analog sets
behind PBX, special access arrangements, etc.).

The easiest way to answer if a capability is available in the US is to
quote the standards documents.  However, as David Lewis points out,
being in the standards isn't the same as being tarrifed and working in
a switch.
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