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Events
2010 Upcoming events - further event details coming shortly
New Features in RepServer 15.5
Javier Cuerva will present a 90 minute masterclass showing the new features of 15.5.
What: Masterclass - Rep Server 15.5
Where: Sybase 365, Equitable House, 47 King William Street, EC4R 9AF
Date: Tuesday 13 April
Time:
13:30 - 15:30
Directions: Click here
Come and Discover the latest Replication Server 15.5 release, focused on
high performance.
Replication Server 15.5 brings a comprehensive set of new features such as
RTL ( Real Time Loading ), a native capability to load SYBASE IQ servers
using a batch approach therefore providing an astonishing replication
throughput.
Replication into ASE has not been forgotten with HVAR (High Volume
Adaptive Replication ), which generalizes the utilization of the Sybase
Bulk-API.
Finally heterogeneous replication has been addressed with the first
edition of Replication Server supporting direct replication into Oracle
therefore incrementing the ease of use and administration of a replication
environment.
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Developer Day, London
Thursday 22 April
The Sybase Developer Network will be running a series of Developer Days across Europe in April and they will be in London on Thursday 22nd.
Outline agenda:
08.30 Registration and Breakfast
09:30 Keynote
09:45 Tracks: SUP, PB, ADS, SQL Anywhere
13:00 Lunch
14:00 End of Event
Full details and to register
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Sybase Social
UKSUG are pleased to host an after work pub social. Just come along and join other Sybase Professionals for an informal drink.
What: Sybase Social
Where: Upstairs, The Horniman, Hay’s Galleria, London Bridge City,
Tooley Street, London SE1
Date: Wednesday 12 May
Time:
From 18:30
Who should attend: Anyone working with Sybase (no need to be a member)
Directions: Click here
If you know anyone working in the Sybase arena that may be interested in attending, please forward this mail.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there.
If you are planning on attending, could you register yours and any colleagues name so we can monitor numbers.
Register Here
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ASE ‘Single Table Optimization’
Date: Tuesday 18 May
Time: 19:00 – 20:00 Hrs - London
Venue: Your Desk
To Register: Get your ISUG Login details then CLICK HERE
Jeff Garbus, author of over 20 books and numerous white papers on Sybase and Microsoft databases; and VP, Enterprise Data Management, mLogica will present this Techcast.
Jeff will talk about physical index structures, the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes, and how they affect the optimizer’s index selection for performance.
You must be an ISUG member to attend this Techcast. ISUG membership is currently part of the UKSUG membership bundle.
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Sybase IQ Admin - for experienced DBA's
Richard Soundy will present a 90 minute masterclass aimed at bringing experienced Sybase/Oracle DBA’s up to speed with IQ.
What: Masterclass - IQ Admin
Where: Sybase 365, Equitable House, 47 King William Street, EC4R 9AF
Date: Tuesday 25 May
Time:
16:00 - 18:30
Who should attend: Experienced Sybase/Oracle DBA's
Directions: Click here
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PowerDesigner Tips & Tricks for ASE & Rep Server Users
Or, some of the loads of stuff PD does for databases and some of the clever things it does with replication systems
John Coleman, formerly of Mott MacDonald, will present a 90 minute masterclass on the above.
What: Masterclass
Where: Sybase 365, Equitable House, 47 King William Street, EC4R 9AF
Date: Wednesday 16 June
Time:
12:00 - 14:00
Who should attend: Any Development DBA or Rep Server Administrator
Directions: Click here
John will draw from his years of database design experience with Power Designer and concentrate on logical and physical data modelling rather than UML and requirements analysis. The emphasis will be on practical techniques that work well, including generating documentation in Microsoft Word format.
This is not a ‘how to’ presentation on database design, it is intended to show database designers how to get the best from Power Designer as a CASE tool. The logical data modelling part is inherently implementation neutral so it will suit all designers, irrespective of the final target RDBMS (e.g. Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, Postgres etc). John has used PD to design and develop Sybase and Microsoft and MySQL systems, and he will share some experience of that – including customising DBMS resource files to embed version management references in database objects.
Sybase replication system design is supported by Power Designer’s ‘Information Liquidity Model’ (ILM). Mott MacDonald has made extensive use of replication systems and John helped design them. He will demonstrate how PD was used for documentation and compare PD’s RCL generator with older, more ‘manual’, approaches.
During this session you will learn how to;
- prepare for ASE migrations and upgrades by generating accurate and detailed physical data models of your databases
- improve system stability by tracking DDL changes through data model deltas
- boost change management processes by utilising PowerDesigner reports as a change review function
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Tips and Tricks to Remote Performance Management
What: Techcast
Where: Your Desk
Date: Wednesday 22 September
Time:
13:00–14:00 EST/18L00 HRS London
mLogica, a leading database consulting firm with specialization in Sybase technologies and remote performance management solutions, in partnership with ISUG, is offering these tips as part of our Sybase ASE 15 Web Series.
Are you up to date with the newest DB monitoring and alerting tools and features? Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the experts.
The Techcast will be presented by Jeff Garbus, mLogica Vice President of Data Management, and author of over 20 books and numerous white papers on Sybase and Microsoft databases.
Jeff is the author of the Administrator's Guide to Sybase ASE 15, a practical systems administration guide for the newest release of the ASE product. In this techcast, Jeff will speak about tools and techniques for a successful remote performance management solution.
Jeff has over 20 years of hands-on expertise in architecture, tuning, and administration of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise databases, with an emphasis on data architecture, database assessments, and performance management. Jeff is a principal level Database Architect and certified trainer of Sybase technologies.
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SQL Anywhere and Spatial Data
What: Techcast
Where: Your Desk
Date: Thursday 23 September
Time:
15:00 GMT/16:00 HRS London
One of the significant new features in SQL Anywhere 12 is built-in support for storing, indexing, querying and synchronizing spatial data. Attend this webcast to learn more about how to use spatial data in the latest version of SQL Anywhere to capture, use and share location-based data in SQL Anywhere powered applications.
Jason Hinsperger is a Product Manager on the SQL Anywhere team, responsible for spatial data requirements in SQL Anywhere and supporting new applications vendors who have evaluated and are now building data-driven location based applications with SQL Anywhere.
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Sybase Social
UKSUG are pleased to host an after work pub social. Just come along and join other Sybase Professionals for an informal drink.
What: Sybase Social
Where: Downstairs in the Wine Bar at The Horniman, Hay’s Galleria
Tooley Street, London SE1
Date: Wednesday 6 October
Time:
From 18:30
Who should attend: Anyone working with Sybase (no need to be a member)
Directions: Click here
If you know anyone working in the Sybase arena that may be interested in attending, please forward this mail.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there.
If you are planning on attending, could you register yours and any colleagues name so we can monitor numbers.
Register Here
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"Tips & Tricks" for a Column Based World
What: Techcast
Where: Your Desk
Date: Tuesday 19 October
Duration: 1 Hour
Start Time: 10:00 PT
13:00 Eastern Time
18:00
London
This session will explore a number of use cases surrounding columnar databases, making sense of all of your unstructured data, and looking at some of the new features of Sybase IQ 15.2.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts.
The Techcast will be presented by Paul Krneta, Chief Architect of Business Intelligence Appliances 2.0, and author of numerous white papers on Sybase technologies. These BI appliances provide ultra-high performance query results in cross correlating multiple types of data, empowering the user community with the ability for high-speed analytics on various data sets previously thought impossible; therefore, providing faster, easier and more intuitive queries. Paul is the Architect responsible for EDMT® Server's certification as the "World's Largest Data Warehouse" (1 PetaByte) in the 2009 Guinness Book of Records, as well as the "Green DW" due to EDMT® Server's 90% reduction in storage and electricity usage In this webcast, Paul will speak about tips and techniques for using a columnar database, making sense of unstructured data and discuss new features of Sybase IQ 15.2
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Sybase ASE Query Optimization
What: Techcast
Where: Your Desk
Date: Thursday 21 October
Duration: 1 Hour
Start Time: 10:00 New York
15:00
London
With upgrade bumps in the rear view mirror, it's now time to open up the throttle on Sybase ASE 15.X. And with Peter Dobler and Kevin Sherlock at your side, you'll get inside performance secrets directly from these top ASE DBA experts.
Participate in this online roundtable and get your most burning questions answered live by our expert panel. In the process, you'll learn:
* What the manuals aren't telling you
* How to choose the right optimizer mode
* How to leverage the query optimizer for extreme speed
We also anticipate a spirited discussion around "The Command Line vs. The GUI" or as some are calling it, "ASE DBA 1.0 vs. 2.0." And the winner is not as clear cut as some would have you believe…
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TechSelect* 2010
Date: Wednesday 10 November
Time: All Day
Venue: CBI Conference Centre, London
Colour Brochure
TechSelect* is the quintessential technical conference for new and experienced Sybase professionals alike. It is the main UK Sybase User Group meeting of the year.
Investing one day of your time in this event will bring you up to date on all that is happening in and around Sybase. You will learn how the recent take over by SAP will affect Sybase and its future. You will speak to top Sybase engineers, meet Sybase partners in the exhibition booths, network with fellow Sybase professionals and get in-depth technical training on a wide range of Sybase’s products learning first-hand from technical experts, including some of the principal software engineers responsible for them.
The event will have 3 full tracks covering Data Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics and PowerBuilder. There will also be sessions on Mobility.
Agenda:
08:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:00 WELCOME UKSUG
09:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sybase - Distributed data and the Unwired Enterprise
Irfan Khan, VP and Chief Technology Officer, Sybase an SAP Company
Flexibility, scalability and the new classes of transactional, analytics and message-based applications are of ever-growing importance to business users and consumers. As part of the evolution of the Unwired Enterprise vision, Sybase continues to make strategic investments in a wide spectrum of foundational technologies to address these needs.
Irfan Khan Sybase CTO, will share Sybase's views on the next generation of distributed data and device center technologies that permit the storage, access and distribution of information. Irfan will also discuss the SAP acquisition and how this will bring new and exciting solutions to the unwired marketplace.
10:00 SEPARATE TRACKS
What's New in Replication Server 15.5 and Future Directions
Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
The two most recent releases of Replication Server, 15.2 and 15.5, have added several unbelievably significant performance enhancements. This session will dive into the technical details of these releases and the key product direction and release roadmaps.
PowerBuilder Track Contents - click here
11:00 COFFEE AND PARTNER EXPO
11:20 SEPARATE TRACKS
Future Directions and Release Roadmaps for Adaptive Server Enterprise
Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
Curious to know what new innovations ASE R&D will bring to you in near future? Come and learn about new capabilities being introduced in ASE. We will share highlights around key product directions and release roadmaps.
Sybase IQ Future Directions
Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist
This session will review the major initiatives underway to sustain Sybase IQ's technical leadership in the analytics and data warehousing market. Attendees will get an early look at key future focus areas with Sybase IQ covering features, use cases and platform competitiveness.
12:30 SEPARATE TRACKS
Customer Services & Support - ASE 15 Migration experiences discussion with Q&A
Steven Allen UK Support Centre Manager & Bart Van Kuijk Principal Technical Support Engineer
Sybase Technical Support is committed to helping customers have a successful migration. The purpose of the session is to share some of our experiences and provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and put forward their experiences/concerns with migrating to ASE 15 whether that is pre or post migration.
During this question and answer session Bart will also give tips on how to proactively monitor post migration, he will highlight some useful known issues and clarify the ASE 15 electronic bug fix and release schedule.
Sybase Mobility - leading technologies for the enterprise of today & tomorrow
Mike Oliver, Sybase (UK) Ltd
Mike will give an overview of the evolving world of enterprise mobility, and how Sybase's vision and technology offerings align with true business demand.
13:00 LUNCH AND PARTNER EXPO
14:15 UKSUG AGM BUSINESS
14:30 SEPARATE TRACKS
The Art of Tuning an ASE In-Memory Database
Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
While Sybase recently released its new version of ASE with support for "In-Memory Databases", some customers had already learned that memory residency through named caches has an effect on task management within the ASE scheduler. When disk i/o is totally eliminated, DBAs must rethink some of their approaches to tuning ASE for both OLTP and mixed workloads. In addition, SMP contention issues could surface with IMDBs that didn't occur previously. This session discusses the side effects of memory residency and how to keep your servers "humming" for all their users.
IQ Multiplex Deep Dive - How Does Multiplex Multi-Writer Work + P&T and monitoring: debugging performance issue in Sybase IQ & Operating Systems?
Lawrence Stoker, Solutions Architect
This course will explain how Sybase IQ Multiplex works, how Multiplex changed with multi-writer capabilities in Version 15, what a coordinator node does, and how to insure it does it well. This session offers a step-by-step overview of the process for chasing down IQ performance and stability issues using IQ and underlying operating systems tools and capabilities.
SUP and how it will effect the Database Market, plus CEP (Aleri)
Jonathan Baker, Director of Mobility Evangelism for Sybase
15:30 TEA AND PARTNER EXPO
16:00 SEPARATE SESSIONS
Real-time Loading of ASE into Sybase IQ
Javier Cuerva, Evangelism Director, Sybase
Historically, data warehouses have been loaded in batch periodically through tools like ETL. With today's businesses clamouring to increase agility, most organizations are seeking ways to move transactional data into their data warehouses and analytic databases in real-time. This session explores the technical details of how to use Replication Server to load data directly into Sybase IQ as a standard replication target. This session will be useful for Rep Server, ASE & IQ professionals.
Developing Applications on Your Real Time Analytics Platform: Writing Custom Functions and Using the New Time Series Analytics in RAP
Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist
This session describes the UDF infrastructure and how to write applications using it. It also describes the Roguewave/VNI functions in RAP Store, and how to use them for doing real time analytics
17:00 ASK THE EXPERTS PANEL
17:30 MEET THE ENGINEERS COCKTAIL
18:30 CLOSE
For details about sponsoring this event or reserving exhibition space contact the organisers.
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Past
events
Events held in the last 12 months, for which many
of the slides are available to download in the "members only" area
Sybase Social
Date: 3 February 2010
Time: 18:30
Venue: The Horniman
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Object Relational Mappers: Friend or Foe?
Date: 15 December 2009
Time: 15h00 - 16h00
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Glenn Paulley, Director of Engineering
Join the SQL Anywhere experts for a deep dive discussion on Object Relational Mappers.
Object relational mappers (ORMs) such as LINQ, Hibernate, and ActiveRecord bridge the gap between the relational database world, and the object-oriented world. By abstracting the database into "virtual database objects", they let programmers develop in any language and environment that they like without ever writing a line of SQL. It sounds great, but is the ORMs sweet song actually a siren's call? This talk will put ORMs on trial to help us find the |
Practical experiences with tuning IQ queries
Date: 10 December 2009
Time: 18h00 - 19h30
Venue: Sybase 365, Equitable House, 47 King William Street, EC4R 9AF
Presenters: Peter Stone, Sybase Professional Services, UK
This session will share a range of detailed, practical experiences of tuning IQ queries gained using IQ 12.7.
It will start with general tips on what to look for in a query plan and then move on to discuss a number of specific patterns that offer opportunities for tuning, often with dramatic results. |
TechSelect* 2009
Date: Thursday 5 November
Time: All Day
Venue: CBI Conference Centre, London
TechSelect* is the UK's annual Forum for Sybase Professionals.
This popular one day event will return to the CBI conference
centre again this year.
The event will have 3 full tracks covering Data Management, Business Intelligence
and Analytics and PowerBuilder.
There will be a session on Mobility including a case study of how Sybase has powered the world's
largest mobile data collection project.
AGENDA
09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:15 WELCOME UKSUG
Sybase Corporate Strategy & Direction
Jonathan Baker, Director, Sybase Developer Network
09:30 PLENARY SESSION - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Future of Data management
Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
For those of us in IT today, Dickens' quote "it was the
best of times, it was the worst of times" certainly rings
true. While all of us dread the reality of doing more with
less, data management is, in many ways, undergoing several
rapid and seminal shifts - from exploding data volumes to
sub-millisecond data access; from grid & cloud computing
to the singular view of geographically distributed data centers.
It's an exciting time to be involved in Data Management. This
session will provide a look into Sybase's unique, yet pragmatic,
vision for Data Management in the coming years along with
roadmaps for our upcoming ASE and Replication Server releases
to meet these needs while making it simpler and easier for
you to perform your roles as Developers and DBA's.
10:30 SEPARATE TRACKS
DBA & Developer Top 10s
Chris Brown, Principal Systems Consultant, Worldwide Evangelism
Group
We have collected some of the
trips, traps and pitfalls that DBAs run into along their data
management journey and have organized them into our own Top
Ten Lists. This session will examine and discuss the impacts
of the following and more: connect parameters, ANSI SQL defaults,
JDBC, ODBC, chained, auto commit, isolation level, ASE server
configuration, ASE server defaults, general configurations,
memory defaults, commit frequency, timeouts, blocking timeouts,
prepared statements, and networking configurations.
Introductory Session
Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist
This session will include a review
of progress made with IQ in the last year and introduce the
new capabilities of the two new releases IQ15 and IQ15.1.
PowerBuilder 11.5 - Solve Your Top
Development Problems Today
John Strano, Sybase Evangelist
See how simply using PowerBuilder enables
you to quickly respond to critical business requirements all
the while being cost effective. We will update the look and
feel of applications, produce .NET components for other teams
and vendors to consume, show different ways that you can move
a large, rich, client/server environment to the Web. We will
show you how your PowerBuilder skills are all you need to
leverage AJAX, build Web Services, and deploy .NET applications.
11:30 COFFEE AND PARTNER EXPO
12:00 SEPARATE TRACKS
Exploring the Sybase RAP Platform
through customer use cases
Zach Dover, Principal Solutions Consultant and Stuart Grant,
Business Development Manager, Sybase
During this session Zach and Stuart
will explain Why RAP was developed and, with the help of use
cases, discuss solutions towards real time data movement and
execution and show how to support interconnected workflows
saying who should be using them and why. The session will
finish with a look at Architectural Patterns relevant to each
case.
ASE or IQ?, or ASE to IQ?
Mark Hamer, Senior Consultant Sybase Professional Services
UK
During this session delegates will
find out where it is best to use ASE or where it is best to
use IQ with reference to a potential migration from ASE to
IQ.
Rich Internet Applications Made
Easy
Armeen Mazda, Appeon
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) can
satisfy both the need for Web accessibility while delivering
the rich interactivity of the desktop. There are clear business
benefits of RIA in the enterprise, and the software industry
is moving towards this adoption trend with AJAX, Microsoft's
Silverlight, Adobe's Flex, etc. This presentation will demonstrate
how PowerBuilder and Appeon work together to make building
RIA a breeze. Specifically, you will be able to leverage existing
PowerBuilder IDE, skills, code, and third-party add-ons to
build RIA at PowerBuilder speed.
The world's largest mobile
data collection project, a case study
Adnan Erriade, Business Development Manager, EMEA
During this session Adnan will present
a case study describing how Sybase has powered the world's
largest mobile data collection project. With over 140,000
remote users, he will show how Sybase technology was used
to overcome some of the key environmental and architectural
challenges in delivering this solution. He will then take
this example further to show how Sybase enables the Rapid
Mobilisation of strategic business applications ranging from
SAP to Remedy to any other application that leverages databases
or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). You will learn how
the 'design once, deploy to many devices' approach can reduce
your long term costs and increase your ROI. Adnan will also
review some of the key challenges currently faced by all mobile
enterprises including future proofing of platform support
and ensuring the secure delivery of information anytime, anywhere,
to any number of employees.
12:30 SEPARATE TRACKS
Customer Services & Support;
ASE 15 Migration experiences, discussion with Q&A
Simon Ogden and Niklas Andersson, Senior Product Support Engineers,
Sybase
Sybase Technical Support is committed
to helping customers have a successful migration. This session
will discuss and share migration issues; it will help delegates
identify what is useful for support to help diagnose a problem
quickly and it will open the floor to any other CS&S related
issues delegates may wish to discuss.
Introducing a New Application Suite
for PowerBuilder Developers
Christophe Dufourmantelle, Novalys
During this session Christophe will
present a new set of tools dedicated to PowerBuilder developers.
They will include Visual Guard for User Authentication, Application-level
Permissions and Auditing features; PBProtect for safeguarding
PB applications against reverse-engineering and decompilation;
Customization Studio to perform dynamic changes in PB applications
without modifying source code and Visual Expert for simplifying
the maintenance of large and complex applications.
13:00 LUNCH AND PARTNER EXPO
14:15 UKSUG AGM BUSINESS
14:30 SEPARATE TRACKS
Practical Applications of ASE Cluster
Edition
Chris Brown, Principal Systems Consultant, Worldwide Evangelism
Group
Learn how to design a clustered infrastructure
based on the underlying Network and Storage System configuration
(SAN), hardware necessary to implement ASE Cluster Edition.
Learn how to connect physical nodes, install the Sybase software
required and maintain the clustered state. Other topics include:
client applications and Client/Server interaction, security,
using Monitoring Tables, managing the workload, cluster cache
configuration, using temporary databases, the sybcluster utility,
and troubleshooting. Includes a live demonstration of ASE
Cluster Edition.
Using Sybase IQ Effectively
Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist
In this session, we'll review the column-based
indexing system used by Sybase IQ and how to use it to advantage.
We'll discuss the types of indexes and show how the Index
Advisor simplifies initial setup.. We'll also cover rich new
administration features and data back-up processes used with
Sybase IQ15.
PowerBuilder 12 - Functionality
update re Beta 2 in Progress
John Strano, Sybase Evangelist
We will show how simple and familiar
a PowerBuilder experience it will be to develop WPF applications
with PowerBuilder 12. We'll build a simple application from
scratch and migrate an existing client/server application
to WPF; and in so doing, will take a tour of the PowerBuilder
12 .NET IDE functionality.
15:30 TEA AND PARTNER EXPO
16:00 SEPARATE SESSIONS
ASE 15: New Feature Tips and Tricks
Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
This session will continue Rob's traditional
"Tips and Tricks" series and will include content
from recent releases of ASE, including 15.0.2 and 15.0.3.
Areas such as security, monitoring and system commands will
be covered with focused discussions on how to make the most
of these simple, yet often little known, gems in your daily
jobs.
PowerBuilder
is .NET - Underscoring how PB12 users will be using the same
technology as VS users in 2010
John Strano, Sybase Evangelist
XAML, control templates, skins, 3rd
party WPF controls; we'll examine "off the street"
WPF functionality that PowerBuilder 12 users will implement
as full .NET citizens.
17:00 PLENARY SESSION - ASK THE EXPERTS PANEL
17:30 MEET THE ENGINEERS - BONFIRE NIGHT NETWORKING EVENT
18:30 CONFERENCE CLOSE
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ASE
Cluster Edition - LiveMeeting
Date: Tuesday 7 July
Time: 13h00 - 14h00 - TBC
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Amit Satoor, ASE Cluster Edition Product
Manager
ASE Cluster Edition is now available on HP-UX and AIX and the
next release of the product will be available this summer.
To learn more about where ASE Cluster Edition is headed join
Amit Satoor, Sybase Product Manager, for this LiveMeeting where
he will highlight the major product features, describe the available
use cases, and discuss the product roadmap of ASE Cluster Edition.
You'll have a chance to ask questions of Amit as he discusses
guidelines for planning implementations using ASE Cluster Edition. |
UKSUG
SUMMER EVENT
Date: Friday 19 June
Time: 09:30 - 14h00
Venue: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London,
EC1Y 8LX
Presenter: Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist,
Sybase Engineering
Map/Directions
09:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10:00 EXTREME TRANSACTION PROCESSING: INTRODUCING ASE'S
NEW IN-MEMORY DATABASE OPTION
At the end of 2009, Sybase will release its first in a series
of ASE releases targeting Extreme Transaction Processing systems.
In this futures presentation Rob will cover Sybase's foray into
In-Memory Database Technology and its usage from both an developers
and DBAs perspective.
11:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:20 MAJOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS IN REPLICATION SERVER
Replication Server provides powerful capabilities to assist
companies in addressing complex business continuity and data
distribution requirements.
However, the data explosion challenge facing customers today
has increased the performance requirements for database replication
dramatically in many production systems.
This session provides technical insight into various recent
major enhancements in Replication Server that address this challenge.
These enhancements include the use of bulk-library interfaces
in the DSI, as well as SQL statement replication (analogous
to stored procedure replication), and provide a huge increase
in Replication Server performance out of the box.
If you are using Replication Server today and are feeling some
pressure to increase performance, don't miss this session.
12:30 QUESTIONS AND CLOSE |
ASE
Backup Server - Internals and Troubleshooting Tips - Masterclass
Date: Friday 3 April
Time: 12h00 - 14h00
Venue: Sybase 365 Office, Equitable House, 47 King William
Street,
London EC4R 9AF
Presenters: Raymond Ho, Sybase Education
During this session Raymond will explores the general internals
of ASE backup server to help you troubleshoot and meet your
SLAs to the business. He will include topics such as general
architecture of backup servers and sybmultbuf processes, dump
formats, data security and privacy issues, compression, common
errors, and the backup server API. He will explore performance
and tuning options as well as alternative backup strategies
such as quiescence and copy and replication. And, the use of
the archive database access feature to provide object-level
recovery capabilities and off-line DBCC. |
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Performance Enhancements in Replication Server 15.2 -
Web Cast
Download
Slides Here
Date: Thursday 12 March
Time: 13H00
Duration: 1 hour, including questions
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Chris Huston, Sr Engineering Manager, Replication
Server Engineering, Sybase Inc.
During this web cast Chris will review the new features in
Replication Server 15.2 and will finish off with a 15 min
presentation on "Tips and Tricks for Upgrading RS"
which he will focus on customers who are close to upgrading
from the 12.x version to 15.x.
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Getting Started with SQL Anywhere 11 - View
Web Cast Replay
Date: Wednesday, February 25th
Time: 15:00 HRS
Venue: Your Desk
Presenter: Join Josh Savill, Product Manager
for SQL Anywhere
Are you new to SQL Anywhere 11? Have you recently downloaded
the Developer Edition? Join this Webinar to learn how you
can get started with the industry-leading database management
and data movement technologies.
This presentation includes a guided tour of the technologies,
tools and resources that make SQL Anywhere so popular among
developers. Learn how you can build powerful database applications
for frontline environments.
This webcast will present detailed information regarding:
· SQL Anywhere 11 components and usage
· Installation, connecting to the database, creating
a database
· Database tools, samples and documentation
· Where to go from here? |
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Mirror Activator
Date: Tuesday 16 December
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Mirror Activator minimizes database downtime for business-critical
applications by providing a continuously-available standby
system, increasing availability and lowering total cost of
ownership. It enhances traditional database replication and
improves the economics of high-end storage replication systems
by reducing network costs, accelerating recovery time and
extending the usefulness of standby systems by utilizing them
for reporting and decision support. |
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Sybase Data Integration Suite- Replication
Date: Tuesday 9 December
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
The replication component of the Data Integration Suite handles
real-time data movement, combining non-intrusive transaction
capture with flexible and efficient network routing and real-time
synchronization across heterogeneous databases. Sybase Replication
is a leader in performance, reliability and scalability of
heterogeneous data replication. |
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DBCC Secrets
Date: Friday 28 November
Time: 09:30 - 11:30
Venue: Sybase 365 Office, Equitable House, 47 King William
Street,
London EC4R 9AF
Presenters: Paramjeet Sachdev, Principle
Solutions Consultant, Sybase
During this masterclass; Pammy will highlight some undocumented
DBCC commands and show how these commands can be used for
specific troubleshooting purposes in ASE including: why and
how to remove specific data from cache, forcefully release
locks, analyze the recovery progress, generate ASE memory
dumps, and more. From these discussions, you will gain increased
insight into ASE internals and a better understanding of
troubleshooting in ASE. |
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Sybase IQ vs. Teradata Warehouse 8.1
Date: Thursday 13 November
Time: 17h00 London (12:00 Eastern Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Keep performance a priority without a closed, costly, hardware-intensive
solution. By adding a Sybase IQ analytics server dedicated
to BI processing, Teradata users can profit from advanced
data compression technology that reduces database size by
five-to-ten times. Join us and learn why Sybase IQ is the
smart choice for advanced business analytics. |
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TechSelect 2008
Date: Thursday 6 November
Time: All Day
Venue: CBI Conference Centre, London
Presenters: Various
Underground: Tottenham Court Road
TechSelect 2008, the annual conference, training event and
partner exhibition will once again be held in London.
The main theme of the event will be Migrating to ASE 15 and
will also include an IQ track.
09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:30 Keynote Address
This
presentation will look
at Sybase's corporate highlights from 2007
and 2008, it will cover some exciting customer migration stories
with ASE 15 and IQ 12.7; it will outline how ASE, IQ and RAP
(Real-Time analytics Platform) are giving customers a competitive
edge and will end with an overview of data management
today and in the future.
Migrating
to ASE 15 Track
IQ
Track
10:00 Migration to ASE 15, Lesson Learned
Rob
Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
This
presentation will cover the recommended approach towards ASE
15 migration as well as lessons learned in practice.
IQ
Futures - An Introduction to Sybase IQ 15 Release
Richard
Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist
A
presentation detailing some of the proposed features and facilities within
Sybase's latest release of its flagship IQ product.
11:30 COFFEE AND PARTNER EXPO
12:00 Tips, Tricks, and Little-known Features
found in ASE 15.0.2+
Rob
Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist
Recent
releases of ASE 15.0.2 (non-Cluster Edition) introduced various
new features and behaviour aspects including changes to query
optimization settings that may not have received much attention,
but nevertheless are useful to know in many practical situations.
This presentation presents tips, tricks, and little-known
features
that will help you make the most of ASE 15.0.2 and beyond.
Sybase
IQ for high performance quantitative analysis - a Case
Study
Mike
Servent, Head of Quantitative and Modelling Systems, Old Mutual
Asset Managers
During
this session; Mike will discuss how the quantitative analysts
at
Old Mutual are now able to manipulate ever larger volumes
of market data
through the introduction of a novel database which allows
users to read and write high quantities of time series data,
fast.
13:00 LUNCH AND PARTNER EXPO
14:15 UKSUG AGM BUSINESS
14:30 Why is my Query slower in 15
Steve
Hookings, Staff Engineer
Stumped
by a slow query after migrating to ASE 15? Showplan
and Plancost
should be your first plan of action. Learn how to use these
tools
to interpret and analyse differences in query plans and determine
corrective action. Examine the important differences in Showplan
outputs between ASE 12.5.x and ASE 15.x. Learn to leverage
Plancost insights to fix problem queries.
Market
Data Time-Series Analysis with MATLAB and Sybase IQ
- Demo
Trevor
Dobbin, Technology Evangelist, Sybase, Inc.
In
this demonstration Trevor will introduce you to time-series
analysis
and financial modelling, an analysis of the fit for Sybase
IQ and
a live MATLAB demonstration showing a selection of typical
time-series
analyses against millions of rows of market data in Sybase
IQ. The demo will show that with IQ it is possible to
capture
and store enormous volumes of tick and quote data together,
as well as provide faster reporting and analysis response
times
driven from the MathWorks MATLAB frontend tool providing trading
institutions with a comprehensive view of market activity
within
minutes for near-realtime analytics.
15:30 TEA AND PARTNER EXPO
16:00 ASE 15 Migration Techniques
Bart
Van Kuijk, Principal Support Engineer, Sybase Customer Services
and Support
This
session will look at the most popular migration techniques
used,
what the options are, what the process is, and how to avoid
the
pitfalls.
17:00 Ask the Experts Panel
17:30 Meet the Engineers Cocktail
18:30 Conference Close |
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Performance, reliability, scalability…
Operational advantages of Sybase Replication Server in Oracle
DBs
Date: Thursday 30 October 2008
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
In a world where data stability and continuous up-time are
everyday requirements, more and more Oracle users are guarding
data integrity and ensuring high availability with Sybase
Replication Server—the industry standard for data replication
performance and reliability.
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Mirror Activator
Date: Tuesday 14 October 2008
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Mirror Activator minimizes database downtime for business-critical
applications by providing a continuously-available standby
system, increasing availability and lowering total cost of
ownership. It enhances traditional database replication and
improves the economics of high-end storage replication systems
by reducing network costs, accelerating recovery time and
extending the usefulness of standby systems by utilizing them
for reporting and decision support. |
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ASE Cluster Edition Technical Webcast Series
Date: Wednesday 8 October 2008
Time: 18h00 London (10h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Chris Brown, Sybase Technology Evangelist
Part II: Configuring Cluster Edition for High Availability. |
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Sybase Data Integration Suite- Replication
Date: Tuesday 7 October
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
The replication component of the Data Integration Suite handles
real-time data movement, combining non-intrusive transaction
capture with flexible and efficient network routing and real-time
synchronization across heterogeneous databases. Sybase Replication
is a leader in performance, reliability and scalability of
heterogeneous data replication.
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Adaptive
Server Enterprise 15 - Performance Under Pressure
Date: Tuesday 23 September 2008
Time: 17h00 London (12:00 Eastern Time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a powerful data management
platform that provides real-time services for mission-critical,
transaction-intensive applications. It delivers an operational
advantage by lowering costs and reducing risks, while meeting
the increasing demands of large databases and high transaction
volumes. |
Monitoring
IQ - Masterclass
Date: Thursday 18 September
Time: 09:15 - 12h00 (morning)
Venue: Sybase 365 Office, Equitable House, 47 King William
Street,
London EC4R 9AF
Presenter: Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist.
Monitoring IQ, using the IQ Monitor and the sp_iqsysmon commands.
How they can help diagnose performance issues. |
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Getting Started with SQL Anywhere 11 - Webcast
Date: Tuesday 16 September 2008
Time: 19h00 London (14:00 Eastern Time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Josh Savill, Product Manager for SQL Anywhere
Are you new to SQL Anywhere 11? Have you recently downloaded
the Developer Edition? Join this webcast and learn how you
can get started with the industry-leading database management
and data movement technologies.
This presentation includes a guided tour of the technologies,
tools and resources that make SQL Anywhere so popular among
developers. Learn now you can build powerful database applications
for frontline environments. This webcast will present detailed
information regarding:
SQL Anywhere 11 components and usage
Installation, connecting to the database, creating a database
Database tools, samples and documentation
Where to go from here? |
Sybase Replication Server vs. GoldenGate Transactional Data
Management
Date: Thursday 11 September 2008
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Move data seamlessly between heterogeneous database platforms.
Sybase Replication Server offers a Wall Street-class data
movement solution that distributes and synchronizes data bi-directionally
between business-critical applications in real time. How does
that performance compare with GoldenGate TDM? Join us for
the answer and learn about a high-performance, scalable solution
with the highest ROI, the best user-friendly development and
management tools, and a proven track record with the world’s
most demanding customers. |
A DBA's
Perspective on Cluster Edition
Date: Wednesday 10 September 2008
Time: 18:00 London (13:00 Eastern time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist,
Sybase
ASE Cluster Edition Technical Webcast Series - Part I |
Getting
Started with Advantage Database Server Webcast
Date: Tuesday 9 September 2008
Time: 14:00 London - TBC
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Chris Franz, Sybase iAnywhere systems consultant
Are you curious about the buzz surrounding Sybase iAnywhere’s
Advantage Database Server? Ever wonder what’s so special
about this RDBMS and what sets it apart from all the rest?
This presentation is a guided tour of the uniqueness, features
and functionality that make Advantage Database Server so popular
among developers. This webcast presents detailed information
regarding:
* Advantage Database Server components and usage
* Installation
* Tools and Features
* Where to go from here?
Chris Franz, the presenter, has over 10 years of experience
working with databases using many development languages such
as Visual Basic, C#, Java and ASP.NET. |
ASE
15 Cluster Edition
Date: Tuesday 9 September 2008
Time: 090h00 - 13h45 (morning)
Venue: Naval & Military Club, No. 4 St. James's Square,
London SW1Y 4JU
Map: Directions
Presenter: Rob Verschoor, Senior Technology Evangelist,
Sybase Inc.
09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:30 Business Overview / Introduction
Outlines the business drivers and main use cases for ASE Cluster
Edition, as well as the high-level architecture.
10:15 Internal Architecture
A look into what happens behind the scenes in ASE Cluster Edition.
Some understanding of these internals will be helpful to better
understand the specific strengths, and corresponding case studies.
11:00 Refreshment Break
11:15 Cluster Edition from a DBA Perspective
This session looks at the aspects of ASE Cluster Edition that
are relevant for DBA's: new commands, syntax, and tools, as
well as practical differences between ASE Cluster Edition and
'classic' (non-cluster) ASE.
12:15 Workload Management
Workload managment features (also known as Virtualized Resource
Management (TM) )allow - amongst other things - specific applications
to be assigned to individual ASE instances in the cluster. Managing
application workload is key to making the most out of ASE Cluster
Edition. |
Definitive
Guide to Choosing a Column-based Database
Date: Tuesday 26 August 2008
Time: 19h00 London (11h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Irfan Khan - Sybase, Claudia Imhoff - B-eye
Network, Scott Smith - ComScore Inc
Demand for significantly faster performance for ad hoc queries,
advanced analytics, and business reporting is intensifying every
day—putting businesses at risk. Transactional systems weren’t
designed for analytics, so how can they keep up?
Claudia Imhoff, noted BI expert and B-eye Network
columnist, will get straight answers from two people who know
how to put a column-based architecture into practice—and
the significant difference it can make in database performance
and scalability.
Scott Smith, Director of Data Warehouse Operations
with ComScore, Inc., depends on this technology to deliver
industry-unique measurement of Internet usage, such as online
surfing and buying behavior and preferences.
Irfan Khan, VP and CTO with Sybase, the leader in
the column-based database market, has a deep understanding
of the technology advantages and knows firsthand why more
and more companies like ComScore are adopting a column-based
solution.
Attend this session with the experts and learn:
* How column-based technology is optimized for fast reporting
and decision support
* What you should know about evaluating various column-based
solutions
* Why traditional row-oriented databases that excel at
transaction processing aren’t optimized
for analytics and reporting
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about column-based
technology from people who know. They may give you a whole
new perspective on staying ahead of business demands—and
the competition. |
Sybase
IQ vs. Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition
Date: Thursday 7 August 2008
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Stop paying a la carte for analytic performance that requires
costly hands-on administration and ongoing tuning. Join us and
learn how Sybase IQ costs less up front and then saves you money
down the road in data storage, maintenance and operating expenses.
High performance doesn’t have to cost more
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Governance,
Risk, and Compliance Management Webcast
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2008
Time: 19h00 London (11h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Sybase and Lumigent
Through a case study approach, we will demonstrate how one company
uses Sybase Audit DB, a complete data-level auditing solution,
to continuously monitor and alert for database vulnerabilities.
In this session you will learn how to:
* Continuously and automatically conduct security checks on
data
* Configure your database to reduce vulnerabilities
* Identify areas of deficiencies in database controls
* Establish ongoing detection and alert of security related
changes |
IQ
Query Plan - Masterclass
Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008
Time: 10h00 - 12h00 (morning)
Venue: Sybase 365 Office, Equitable House, 47 King William
Street,
London EC4R 9AF
Presenter: Richard Soundy, IQ Technical Evangelist.
The IQ Query Plan. How to interpret the information is presents,
and how it can help you improve query performance in IQ. |
Information
Anywhere Suite
Date: Tuesday 17 June and Tuesday 19 August 2008
Time: 17h00 London (09h00 Pacific time)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
The Information Anywhere Suite is a secure, scalable mobile
software platform that combines email/messaging, mobile device
management, enterprise-to-edge security and back-office application
extension capabilities to give frontline workers secure, reliable,
available access to the information they need. |
Replication
Server on WorkSpace - Demo
Date: Thursday 12 June 2008
Time: 16h00 London
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Mike Crocker will give a presentation on managing RepServer
using Sybase WorkSpace followed by Q&A.
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Sybase IQ vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Accelerate performance.
Say no to slow query response.
Date: Thursday 5 June 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Can a DBMS known for on-line transaction processing stand
up against a platform-independent, high-performance analytics
server that thrives in mission-critical enterprise environments?
Join us and learn how thousands of enterprises receive on-demand
reports and query responses 10-to-100 times faster with Sybase
IQ. |
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Data Integration Suite: Replication
Date: Tuesday 3 June 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
The replication component of the Data Integration Suite
handles real-time data movement, combining non-intrusive transaction
capture with flexible and efficient network routing and real-time
synchronization across heterogeneous databases. Sybase Replication
is a leader in performance, reliability and scalability of
heterogeneous data replication. |
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Sybase IQ - Data Integrity Suite - Integrating Enterprise
Information
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Sybase IQ is a highly scalable relational database optimized
for unsurpassed query performance in business intelligence
and large data warehouses. It combines extraordinary speed
and agility with low total cost of ownership to harness the
value of operational data and deliver dramatically faster
results for mission-critical business intelligence, analysis
and reporting. |
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Tips & Tricks for Migrating Replication Server to
15.x
Date: Wednesday 21 May 2008
Time: 14h00 (London)
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: Chris Huston
Head of Replication Server Enginnering Team, Sybase Inc.
Chris's talk will cover:
- basic replication background, "Why replicate?"
- RS 15.0/15.0.1 and 15.1 (GA June 2008) new feature descriptions
- Tips/tricks for migrating RS to 15.x
- Replication Server Q&A |
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Data Security - Assessing Your Risk (Afaria)
Date: Tuesday 13 May 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Afaria is scalable, enterprise-class software that proactively
manages all the devices, applications, data and communications
critical to frontline-worker success, while providing headquarters
with visibility and control. Its security management capabilities
use a Microsoft .NET-based console to provide enterprise-ready
security solutions that protect mobile data and devices. |
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Performance, portability, privacy… The operational
advantages of ASE 15 over Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Date: Thursaday 8 May 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Very large databases and high transaction volumes don't
have to compromise server performance. Join us and learn why
industry experts and enterprise users agree… for superior
OLTP performance, platform portability and secure privacy,
there's no substitute for ASE 15.
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Masterclass - IQ for ASE DBA's - and how to tune it
Date: Thursaday
1 May 2008
Time: 14h00
Finish: 16h00
Venue: Lil
Patrick Room, Coin Street Centre, Waterloo
Presenters: Richard
Soundy, IQ Server Specialist, Sybase Business Intelligence
Division
In this Masterclass Richard will look at the differences between
ASE and IQ and go through some of the performance and tuning
methods.
Specific Areas covered: Differences between ASE & IQ:
Data storage and compression, Indexes and access methods.
Monitoring: IQ Monitor, Counters, Query Plans and Query Execution |
Advantage
Web Seminar: Sybase IQ vs. Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition
Date: Thursday 17 April and Thursday 12 June 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Stop paying a la carte for analytic performance that requires
costly hands-on administration and ongoing tuning. Join us and
learn how Sybase IQ costs less up front and then saves you money
down the road in data storage, maintenance and operating expenses.
High performance doesn't have to cost more. |
Development
on ASE with Sybase WorkSpace - Demo
Click here to view this
session
Date: Wednesday 9 April 2008
Time: 12h30 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenter: Mike Crocker, Engineering Designer, Sybase
Inc.
In this presentation, Mike will give an overview/demo of the
Database development in WorkSpace.
If time allows he will also show how enterprise modeling is
integrated in the product. The demo will show the ability to:
* Visually create and edit database objects, including tables,
stored procedures, events and User-Defined Functions (UDF)
* Navigate and manipulate database objects in the enterprise
* Export and import database objects and services to database
servers
* Visually debug stored procedures, triggers, SQL Anywhere events
and UDFs
*Automatically detect and create required temp tables
*Leverage Eclipse framework for extensibility Part of the complete
WorkSpace toolset, Database Development is integrated with data
modeling, services-oriented development and orchestration, and
data federation, allowing Sybase customers to manage their data
more efficiently than ever before. |
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Data Management Trends 2008: Challenges - Opportunities
Date: Thursday 3rd April 2008
Time: Morning
Venue: Founders' Hall, London
Presenters: See below
The enterprise data explosion is a fact of life.
A University of California study suggests that 1.5 billion
terabytes of new information are created each year, and the
lowest estimates translate this into a 30 percent annual growth
in new stored data for each business.
Causes abound. One obvious factor is ever-expanding use of
the Internet and internal networks, which share information
by duplicating it. Another major contributor is financial
transparency legislation that require organizations to report
on multiple years of data. In nearly every industry, CRM and
other customized marketing efforts generate volumes of purchasing-history
and personal data.
The explosion of stored data is accompanied by business intelligence
trends that examine longer-term data and require that data
to be stored online, not off of tapes.
As a result, enterprises face three critical data management
challenges:
1. Control costs and improve performance as data volume escalates.
2. Reduce operational risk in the face of growing complexity.
3. Exploit today's technology while laying a strong foundation
for the future.
AGENDA
09:00 Data Management Trends 2008 - Opportunities &
Challenges
Philip
Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research
The task of managing data is changing with the growing volume
of information, demands for tighter regulation, greater dependence
on information systems, and the limits of today's data centers
and IT budgets. IT managers are facing significant challenges,
but opportunities exist for those with the insight necessary
to find their way through.
10:15 Sybase - A Tradition of Data Innovation
David
Jonker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sybase Inc.
Addressing the data management needs of 2008 and beyond requires
enterprises to move away from the traditional approach of
managing data and to embrace a strategy of best-in-class data
management. Discover how Sybase has spent the last decade
building a portfolio of databases optimized for specific uses
and environments.
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:00 Solving Data Center Challenges with "Less is
More" Thinking
Peter
Thawley, Senior Director/Architect, Sybase Inc.
Many of today's IT departments face a dilemma. Business groups
are demanding ever higher service levels, which often requires
hardware and data center expansion. At the same time, IT departments
are reaching the limits of physical space and stretched IT
budgets. Discover how enterprises are doing "more with
less" by using the right database technologies for OLTP
systems.
11:30 Building an IT Safe for your Information Jewels
Jeff
Pryslak, Senior Solutions Manager
Losing data can be costly, interrupting operations, tarnishing
reputations, and even litigation. Recent events reveal the
many different ways data can be lost, including hackers, natural
and IT disasters, and even rogue employees. Learn how enterprises
can protect the enterprise's information jewels while minimizing
the impact on system performance.
12:00 Ensuring non-stop operation in a stop and go world
David Jonker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sybase Inc.
IT systems are the information pulse of enterprises and the
impact of downtime can be enormous for the business groups
depending on them. Yet 100% uptime of any one server is never
a reality. Systems go and eventually systems stop. However,
enterprises that architect for a stop and go world can ensure
there is always an information pulse.
12:30 Lunch & Networking
13:30 Close
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Afaria:
Frontline Freedom, Central Control
Date: Tuesday 11 March 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Afaria is scalable, enterprise-class software that proactively
manages all the devices, applications, data and communications
critical to frontline-worker success, while providing headquarters
with visibility and control. Its security management capabilities
use a Microsoft .NET-based console to provide enterprise-ready
security solutions that protect mobile data and devices. |
Adaptive
Server Enterprise: Performance Under Pressure
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a powerful data management
platform that provides real-time services for mission-critical,
transaction-intensive applications. It delivers an operational
advantage by lowering costs and reducing risks, while meeting
the increasing demands of large databases and high transaction
volumes. |
Performance,
reliability, scalability … The operational advantages of
Sybase RepServer in Oracle
Date: Thursday 20 March 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters: TBA
In a world where data stability and continuous up-time are everyday
requirements, more and more Oracle users are guarding data integrity
and ensuring high availability with Sybase Replication Server—the
industry standard for data replication performance and reliability. |
Data
Integration Suite: Integrating enterprise information
Date: Tuesday 4 March 2008
Time: 17h00 (London)
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Presenters:
Sybase Data Integration Suite provides a smarter, more streamlined
approach to integrating data and delivering useful information
throughout the enterprise. This out-of-the-box solution accelerates
the design, development, delivery and management of seamless
data flows. With this modular suite, organizations can start
with today’s projects and scale to address the most serious
integration challenges. |
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Sybase IQ vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Date: Thursday 14 February 2008
Time: 17h00 London time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Can a DBMS known for on-line transaction processing stand
up against a platform-independent, high-performance analytics
server that thrives in mission-critical enterprise environments?
Join us and learn how thousands of enterprises receive on-demand
reports and query responses 10-to-100 times faster with Sybase
IQ.
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Information
Anywhere: Better protection. Better economics
Date: Tuesday 12 February 2008
Time: 17h00 London time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
The Information Anywhere Suite is a secure, scalable mobile
software platform that combines email/messaging, mobile device
management, enterprise-to-edge security and back-office application
extension capabilities to give frontline workers secure, reliable,
available access to the information they need. |
Sybase
IQ vs. Teradata Warehouse 8.1
Date: Thursday 7 February 2008
Time: 17h00 London time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Keep performance a priority without a closed, costly, hardware-intensive
solution. By adding a Sybase IQ analytics server dedicated to
BI processing, Teradata users can profit from advanced data
compression technology that reduces database size by five-to-ten
times. Join us and learn why Sybase IQ is the smart choice for
advanced business analytics. |
New
Features and Functionality Scheduled for RepServer 15.1
Date: Wedensday 6 February 2008
Time: 17h00 GMT
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Chris Huston will be presenting at the upcoming meeting of the
Data
Integration Virtual User Group. Chris will enlighten the attendees
to the new features and functionality scheduled for RepServer
15.1 ! |
Mirror
Activator: Anywhere. Anytime. Any device
Date: Tuesday 5 February 2008
Time: 17h00 UK Time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Mirror Activator minimizes database downtime for business-critical
applications by providing a continuously-available standby system,
increasing availability and lowering total cost of ownership.
It enhances traditional database replication and improves the
economics of high-end storage replication systems by reducing
network costs, accelerating recovery time and extending the
usefulness of standby systems by utilizing them for reporting
and decision support.
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The operational advantages of Sybase Replication Server
in Oracle DBs
Date: Thursday 24 January 2008
Time: 17h00 UK Time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Performance, reliability, scalability…In a world where
data stability and continuous up-time are everyday requirements,
more and more Oracle users are guarding data integrity and
ensuring high availability with Sybase Replication Server—the
industry standard for data replication performance and reliability. |
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The operational advantages of ASE 15 over Microsoft SQL
Server 2005
Date: Thuursday 17 January 2008
Time: 17h00 UK Time
Duration: 1 Hour
Venue: Your Desk
Performance, portability, privacy… Very large databases
and high transaction volumes don’t have to compromise
server performance. Join us and learn why industry experts
and enterprise users agree… for superior OLTP performance,
platform portability and secure privacy, there’s no substitute
for ASE 15. |
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IQ from an ASE Practitioners Perspective
Date: Thursday 6 December 2007
Time: 09h30
Venue: Raleigh suite, 12th Floor, The Tower Hotel,
E1W 1LD
Presenters:
Mike Servent, Manager of the Quantitative and Modelling Systems
team, Old Mutual Asset Managers
and
Richard Soundy, IQ Server Specialist, Sybase Business Intelligence
Division
09:30 Registration & Coffee
09:50 An Introduction to Sybase IQ
Richard
Soundy, Sybase
10:00 Basic Architecture of Sybase IQ
Richard
Soundy, Sybase
Column
storage, Compression, Optimiser
10:20 ASE to IQ Highlights
Richard
Soundy, Sybase
This
session covers what happens when you want to move an analytical
application from ASE to IQ, including how to move/change schemas,
stored procedures and reporting applications. This
session
will enable an ASE user to scope and plan a possible ASE to
IQ migration
11:20 Coffee
12:00 Sybase IQ as a high performance Time Series database
Mike
Servent, Old Mutual Asset Managers
Quantitative
Analysts at Old Mutual want to be able to manipulate ever
larger volumes of market data. Sybase IQ was introduced with
a novel
database schema allowing users to read, and write, high quantities
of times series data fast
13:00 Lunch and Close
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