Report on the 19^th Brazilian symposium on databases (SBBD 2004)

The Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD) is an annual event promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) through its Database Special Committee. In 2004, the 19^th edition of SBBD was held in Brasília, Brazil's capital, on 18-20 October, organized by the Computer Science Department of the University of Brasília (UnB). As in the previous years, SBBD 2004 received the in-cooperation status from ACM SIGMOD and was partially supported by the VLDB Endowment, thus confirming the recognition of the international community of SBBD as the most important database event in Latin America.