ISP Information:
This refers, unsurprisingly, to a database that is very large in size. How large exactly is not specifically defined, but sizes of around a terabyte or more would fit this moniker. Database technology is driven by the need for fast VLDB solutions, and there are annual VLDB conferences and VLDB journals.
ISP Glossary:
VLDB - E-Mail Swindle Uses False Report About a SwindleBy KATIE HAFNER and LAURIE J. FLYNNSAN FRANCISCO, June 20 - It was a clever, if not entirely flawlessruse. Many of its potential victims saw through it immediately.Others were less skeptical and were caught in its snare.On Wednesday, starting in the early afternoon, people around thecountry began receiving an e-mail message with "Fraud Alert" in thesubject line. In the guise of concern about a purchase from Best Buyand possible credit card misuse, the message urged recipients to go toa "special" BestBuy.com Web site and correct the problem by enteringtheir credit card and Social Security numbers.E-mail posing as a fraud notice to carry out a fraud - indeed preyingon a consumer's fear of being defrauded -- is an illegal form of spam,the much-loathed tide of random, unsolicited messages that pours intocomputer inboxes every day.http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/technology/21CARD.html[Lisa Minter note: A special user name and password is available toreaders here of NY Times: name: telecomdigest password: telecomdigestand you are free to use those as needed. Lisa M.]
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