Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering December 2011 Vol. 34 No. 4 IEEE Computer Society Letters Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ...................................................... David Lomet 1 Letter from the Special Issue Editors ................................ Shivnath Babu and Kai-Uwe Sattler 2 Special Issue on Self-Managing Databases: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead Database Self-Management: Taming the Monster .......................... Mohammed Abouzour, Ivan T. Bowman, Peter Bumbulis, David E. DeHaan, Anil K. Goel, Anisoara Nica, G. N. Paulley, and John Smirnios 3 AutoAdmin Project at Microsoft Research: Lessons Learned .................................... Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Arnd Christian K¨ onig, Vivek Narasayya, Ravi Ramamurthy, and Manoj Syamala 12 A Decade of Oracle Database Manageability ....................................................... ............ Pete Belknap, John Beresniewicz, Benoit Dageville, Karl Dias, Uri Shaft, and Khaled Yagoub 20 Benchmarking Online Index-Tuning Algorithms .................................................... .................... Ivo Jimenez, Jeff LeFevre, Neoklis Polyzotis, Huascar Sanchez, and Karl Schnaitter 28 Adaptive Processing of User-Defined Aggregates in Jaql ............................................. ................................... Andrey Balmin, Vuk Ercegovac, Rares Vernica, and Kevin Beyer 36 Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases ............................ Thomas Heinis, Miguel Branco, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica, Farhan Tauheed, and Anastasia Ailamaki 44 Challenges and Opportunities for Managing Data Systems Using Statistical Models ........................ .............................................. Yanpei Chen, Archana Ganapathi, and Randy Katz 53 SQL Azure as a Self-Managing Database Service: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead .................. ..................... Kunal Mukerjee, Tomas Talius, Ajay Kalhan, Nigel Ellis, and Conor Cunningham 61 Conference and Journal Notices ICDE Conference ...................................................................... back cover