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If you are a DBA, or a database performance analyst, chances are that you deal with performance-related issues regarding your database systems every day of the week. But have you ever stopped for a ...

Several decades ago, scientists started to set up biological data collections for the centralized management of and easy access to experimental results, and to ensure long-term data availability (Fig.