CIT GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR

(1956 – 2006)

One Day Workshop On

VLDB Challenges

22^nd December 2005

Organized by

Department of Computer Technology and Applications

COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

COIMBATORE – 641 014

Speakers:

Ms. Vandana Mishra                                     Dr .A. Kannan

                  Database Administrator,                                  Assistant Professor,   

Intel Technologies, Bangalore.                          Department of CSE,        

                                                                                       Anna University, Chennai.

     The workshop was inaugurated and presided by Dr.R.Prabhakar, Principal, CIT and  Prof.E.Ramaswamy, Administrative Officer, CIT. The academicians, research scholars and students from various educational institutions attended the workshop. 

Objective:

      The size of data sets is already growing exponentially, and we can expect that growth rate to accelerate. At the same time industries are using a higher and higher percentage of data for decision support and analysis. The result of these two trends is the development of Very Large Data Bases (VLDBs).

 VLDBs are best defined not in terms of a fixed size but by the challenges they present:

Ø      First, they make it difficult to fit maintenance and management tasks into an allotted time to avoid negatively impacting application performance and data availability.

Ø      Second, they can impede query performance by consuming a great deal of time and resources in order to return the required data.

Ø      Third, they affect the cost of operating applications. 

Benefits of the workshop: 

      This workshop enlightened the participants on

•  The role of database administrator in handling Very Large Data Base Challenges such as Data partitioning, Load Balancing and Storage Area Network  by Ms.Vandana Mishra, Intel.

•  The conceptual facts of the academic research on Active, Spatial, Temporal and Deductive Databases by Dr. A. Kannan, Anna University.