DBA Survey [Carnegie Mellon University]

  • I am a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University:

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/

    We are conducting a survey of database administrators. We seek to better understand how real-world applications use databases and compare them against the assumptions made in academic publications. For example, one of the things that we want to know is how common stored procedures are in real systems. Most academic papers assume that 100% of transactions execute as stored procedures with serializable isolation but that's clearly not true. We want to use this data to show that academics are solving the wrong problems.

    This survey is meant for DBAs that are in charge of maintaining one or more database installations. You will be asked high-level questions about their workloads, including:

    • How often transactions execute as stored procedures?
    • How often do queries execute as prepared statements?
    • What isolation level do transactions run at?
    • How would you characterize the workload pattern on the database?

    The survey is available on SurveyMonkey:

    http://cmudb.io/dba-survey

    Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

    --- Andy

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    University IRB Disclaimers
    Participation in this survey is voluntary and participants have the right to withdraw at any time. The confidentiality of your data will be protected. All survey data is collected anonymously by default. If you choose additionally to provide us with your name and contact information for any follow-up questions that we might have, we will assign a coded ID to your data instead of your name. We will only report the data in aggregate form--no identifiable information will revealed. Participation is done without compensation. The results of this survey may be used in research publications.

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