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Database discussion list starsofi-l@bnl.gov archive

We used to use stardb-l@bnl.gov archive but have retired it at least until there's a lot of DB discussion, in the interests of avoiding too much list proliferation

Activities and plans

Federated database ID (FDID) allocations

Conditions Database (constants, calibrations, configuration)

Database administration

Objectivity

HepODBMS

The HepODBMS package (author Dirk Duellman, CERN/RD45) is being added to the CLHEP library as a package providing a binding to object databases that is independent of particular implementations (such as Objectivity). Adopted by BaBar. It is in /afs/rhic/star/db/HepODBMS/; see the README file. Imported from BaBar; makefiles not converted for our use yet.

Objectivity license usage, fractional FTEs

Licenses owned by RHIC: 107 units. Licenses are concurrent use. Approximate level of STAR usage:

RHIC Event store task force

BaBar links and other related sites