Usability

Today we're going to talk about improving usability and reducing knobs in turning databases; this is related to conversations and requests that we've had throughout the term. We'll be reading two papers:

Surajit Chaudhuri Vivek R. Narasayya. AutoAdmin 'What-if' Index Analysis Utility. Proc. SIGMOD Conference, 1998, 367-378. You may skip sections 4.2-4.4.
H. V. Jagadish, Adriane Chapman, Aaron Elkiss, Magesh Jayapandian, Yunyao Li, Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu: Making database systems usable. SIGMOD Conference 2007: 13-24. Note that this was a keynote, not a regular submission.

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