Abstract
This panel will fan the flames of the continuing arguments between Database Theory and Database Systems. To hear each side tell it, database theorists are frustrated mathematicians who wouldn't know a buffer pool if they fell in it, while database system ( researchers are ignorant hackers who couldn't care less for correctness, as long as their benchmarks run fast. The panel will consist of an advocate and an apologist for database theory and for database systems. They will debate the past contributions of database theory to the development of database systems and the relevance o£ current theory to the real problems facing systems developers. The panelists will also try to divine the future and predict what will be the next hot areas for theoretical investigations and which areas of database systems would benefit most from application o£ theory. Among the questions that the panelists might choose to ignore are:
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