Despite recent advances in software connguration management (SCM), constructing consistent conngurations of large and complex versioned software products still remains a challenge. We provide an overview of existing approaches which address this problem. These approaches are compared by means of a taxonomy which is based on an analogy to deductive databases: construction of a connguration corre...

This paper provides the system administrator with a fundamental understanding of database architecture internals so that he can better configure relational database systems. The topics of discussion include buffer management, access methods, and lock management. To both illustrate concepts in practice, and to contrast the two architectures of market leaders, Oracle and Sybase implementations ar...

STS scholars are engaging in collaborative research order to study extended socio-technical phenomena. This article participates discussions on methodography and inventive methods by reflecting visualizations used both internally a team of researchers together with participants. We describe how these devices for generating transforming data were brought our ethnographic inquiry into the formati...