Letter to SIGMOD Record Editor

SIGMOD Record

note: With the exception of the last pages –which would be the back cover of the printed issue– that are not included in this file, it has the same contents as the printed edition. All the articles are also available individually online and have been put together here for convenience only.] SIGMOD Record SIGMOD Record is a quarterly publication of the Special Interest Group on Management of Dat...

TODS Perceptions and Misconceptions

Ling Liu asked that I write a quarterly column on the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). I welcomed this opportunity to engage in a dialog with the database community. TODS’ raison d’être is to disseminate scientific results and as such is a partnership between authors and readers, mediated by ACM publications staff and volunteers, primarily the TODS Editorial Board, the TODS Informat...

Effects of Tranexamic Acid on Bleeding and Hemoglobin Levels in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Letter to Editor

SIGMOD Program Review

SIGMOD should be careful not to stretch itself too thinly. The current community that SIGMOD serves is the \database research-oriented community": those producing the research results (academicians and research lab members), those utilizing the research results (DBMS, middleware, and tool vendors), and those interested in where the eld is going (forwardlooking users and consultants). At the pre...

Accessibility of the Database Literature

SIGMOD has had for the past few years an over-arching vision of enabling all information on the database field to be freely accessible to everyone. Of course, this goal runs smack into the economic realities of scientific publishing. So the SIGMOD Executive Committee over the period of 1997–2001 tempered its initial goals to the following strategy, emphasizing free CDROM accessibility first, fo...