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Vivek Narasayya

Vivek Narasayya
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
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Research Interests

  • Physical database design
  • Performance monitoring, diagnostics and tuning of databases
  • Query optimization

 

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee:
    • ACM SIGMOD 2003, ACM SIGMOD 2008 (Industrial track)
    • ACM CIKM 2004
    • Clean DB Workshop 2007
    • COMAD 2009
    • DBTest 2010
    • IEEE ICDE 2002
    • SMDB 2008
    • PVLDB 2008-2010
    • VLDB 2006 (Core DB track)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Panelist
  • National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panelist: Committee on State Voter Registration Databases, 2007.
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Attendee, 2008.

 

Invited Talks

  • Vivek Narsayya. SQL Server Query Optimizer, and Reflections on Query Optimization. May 2010, Stanford University.
  • Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya. "Self-Tuning Database Systems: A Decade of Progress". VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria. Invited Talk for 10-year Best Paper Award.
  • Vivek Narasayya. "Recent Advances in Self-Tuning Database Systems". Keynote talk at International Workshop on Automated Performance Tuning (iWAPT) 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Vivek Narasayya. "Microsoft SQL Server Query Optimizer". May 2007, Stanford University.
  • Vivek Narasayya. "AutoAdmin: Towards Self-Tuning Databases". Nov 2002, Nov 2003, Stanford University.

 

Publications

    2012

    2011

    • Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Arnd Christian König, Vivek Narasayya, Ravi Ramamurthy, and Manoj Syamala, AutoAdmin Project at Microsoft Research: Lessons Learned, in Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, December 2011

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    1999

    • Surajit Chaudhuri, Rajeev Motwani, and Vivek Narasayya, On Random Sampling over Joins, in SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 1999
    • Surajit Chaudhuri and Vivek Narasayya, Index Merging, in 15th International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, April 1999

    Parting 'Shot'

    Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency.