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• VLDB Conference
• Other Database Conferences.
• The VLDB Journal
• VLDB 2004
• Computer Science Journals
• TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council)

• The TPC-D Queries

• DB Research Groups

• Stanford University Database Group
• Berkeley Database Research
• The Indiana University Database Group
• PostgreSQL
• Thor (A large-scale distributed, object-oriented database system)
• MySQL
• Mood: An Object Oriented Database System.
• Ode: An Object Oriented Database System.
• Catalog of free database systems
• eXist (Open Source XML Database)

• ResearchIndex

Course Site:

Stanford University:

• Database System Principles
• Database System Implementation (2003)
• Database Research Seminar
• Independent Database Project
• Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing
• Advanced Topics in Database Systems (Algorithmic Issues in Database Systems)
• Beyond Relational Database Systems
• Introduction to Databases

Berkeley:

• Post-Modern Database Systems: Databases Meet the Web
• Introduction to Database Systems
• Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
• Advanced Database Systems (a.k.a. Networked Information Systems) OR Implementation of Database System
• The U.C. Berkeley Database Group Seminar 

Carnegie Mellon:

• ADVANCED TOPICS IN DATABASE SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE
• Database Applications
• Database Management Systems: Design and Implementation
• Hot Topics in Database Systems
• Multimedia Databases and Data Mining

MCGILL:

• Database Systems
• Distributed Database Systems
• Advanced Topics Systems 1: Distributed Data Management
• 400 Project Topics
• Files and Databases
   

Cornell:

• Advanced Database Systems
• Applied Database Systems
• Topics in Database Systems

Book site:

A First Course in Database Systems