This volume contains the proceedings of the VLDB 2017 PhD Workshop, co-located with the 43nd International Conference on Very Large Database (VLDB 2017) and held on August 28, 2017, in Munich, Germany. Following the call for papers, 27 papers were submitted for presentation at the workshop. Of these, the program committee carefully selected a total of 14 papers, with 10 selected for long and 4 for short presentations, which are contained in this volume.
The workshop program also featured a keynote talk by Prof. Dr. Anastasia Ailamaki, (EPFL, Switzerland) who talked about the past and future of database transaction processing engines. The workshop ended with a panel consisting of leading database experts including Michael Carey (University of California, Irvine, USA), Wolfgang Lehner (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), and Themis Palpanas (Paris Descartes University, France) who discussed the “life with a PhD” and provided valuable tips and suggestions to the PhDs who attended the workshop.

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