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SkyServer Documents
The following is a list of documents relating to the SDSS CAS (Catalog Archive Server), including the SkyServer
web interface, the CasJobs batch query workbench, and the
sqlLoader data loading pipeline.
- Catalog Archive Server slides for SDSS-IV Data Review held at JHU, October 15-16, 2014. (PDF): Slides for the CAS presentation at the data review.
- Overview of the SDSS Catalog Archive Server (PDF): A general description of the CAS architecture and its main components.
This document references several articles published in the IEEE/ACM journal "Computing in Science and Engineering". These articles are listed below
as well for convenience (with links to the PDF files).
- Thakar, A.R. 2008: Lessons Learned From The SDSS Catalog Archive Server,
Computing in Science and Engineering, 10, 6 (Nov/Dec 2008), 65.
- Thakar, A.R. 2008: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Drinking from the Fire Hose,
Computing in Science and Engineering, 10, 1 (Jan/Feb 2008), 9.
- Li, N. and Thakar, A.R. 2008: CasJobs and MyDB: A Batch Query Workbench, Computing in Science and Engineering, 10, 1 (Jan/Feb 2008), 18.
- Thakar, A.R., Szalay, A.S., Fekete, G., and Gray, J. 2008: The Catalog Archive Server Database Management System, Computing in
Science and Engineering, 10, 1 (Jan/Feb 2008), 30.
- Szalay, A.S., Thakar, A.R., and Gray, J. 2003: The sqlLoader Data Loading Pipeline, Computing in Science and Engineering, 10, 1 (Jan/Feb 2008), 38.
- Thakar, A.R., Szalay, A.S., Kunszt, P.K., Gray, J. 2003, "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive: Migrating A Multiterabyte Archive from Object to
Relational Databases", Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 5 (Sep/Oct 2003), pp16-29.
- CAS Loader (sqlLoader) User Guide.
- SkyServer usage logging overview and SkyServer traffic page.
There is also a sitemap outlining the structure of the site.
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