The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - April 2006 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of Contents:
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – April 25,
2006
2) Sybase Releases PowerBuilder 10.5;
Provides Total Application Integration to Developers
3) Sybase iAnywhere Delivers SQL Anywhere
10 Beta
4) Servoy And Sybase iAnywhere Speed
Development Of Database-Powered Applications On Linux
5) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6) Sybase Events
7) Sybase Training Schedule (May -
Jul)
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – April 25,
2006
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, April 25, 2006. The topic will be
“Achieving Higher Throughput with Your
SQL Anywhere Database” an iAnywhere “for developers, by developers”
webcast led by Todd
Loomis, Chief Systems Architect at CodeWorks Software Systems. The session will discuss lessons learned
from implementing high throughput systems, focusing on the impact database
design choices have on data throughput rates. Mr. Loomis will offer advice based
on his experience running SQL Anywhere databases storing hundreds of gigabytes
of data.
Topics discussed
include:
- Database Design
- Indexing
- Physical Considerations
- Backup and Recovery
- Benchmark Testing
The presentation will be followed
by a round table discussion.
Agenda:
4:00pm - 4:15pm Introduction, Welcome,
Q&A
4:15pm - 5:15pm Achieving Higher Throughput with Your SQL Anywhere
Database
5:15pm - 5:45pm Round Table
Discussion
5:45pm – 6:00pm Wrap Up
6:30pm - Post meeting discussions at Champps Americana (at the Uptown
location)
The meetings are held at
HAL-PC,
2) Sybase Releases PowerBuilder 10.5;
Provides Total Application Integration to Developers
DUBLIN,
Calif.— April 17, 2006 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:
SY) , a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today
announced the availability of Sybase® PowerBuilder® 10.5, the next-generation
rapid application development ( RAD) tool. PowerBuilder 10.5 features key
functionality enhancements and offers improvements to the DataWindow®, an
industry leading patented data access, presentation and manipulation tool. These
enhancements provide total integration for client/server, distributed and mobile
applications.
“For more than eight
years PowerBuilder has provided the foundation on which Synergy has built its
business critical applications,” said Des White, Product Development Manager at
Synergy Logistics. “The power, flexibility and overall product stability of
PowerBuilder has supported Synergy in making complex application changes with
confidence, enabling our clients to take advantage of the latest technical
advances with least risk and maximum benefit.”
“We are calling
PowerBuilder 10.5 the ‘back to basics’ release because the focus is truly back
to its roots, which is what our loyal developers have asked for,” said Karen
Frederiksen, director of Application Development Technology at Sybase. “Core
enhancements, including improvements to the DataWindow and advanced support for
Web services, have been made to help developers build better applications,
faster.”
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1040193.
3) Sybase iAnywhere
Delivers SQL Anywhere 10 Beta
“With more than 10
million deployments worldwide, SQL Anywhere has become the premier choice of
more than 20,000 developers for building data-driven frontline applications,”
said Dave Neudoerffer, vice president of engineering at iAnywhere.
“Version 10 builds on the tradition of innovation that has made SQL Anywhere so
popular, and creates new opportunities for organizations to deliver
enterprise-caliber data management to the far reaches of their business.”
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1040194.
4) Servoy And Sybase iAnywhere Speed
Development Of Database-Powered Applications On Linux
“We’re seeing
continued demand for Linux-based solutions, as many of our developers are
endorsing Linux as one of their key development and deployment platforms,” said
Michael Paola, director of product management at iAnywhere. “iAnywhere and
Servoy have been long-time supporters of the Linux platform. In the late 1990’s,
SQL Anywhere was one of the first relational databases with commercial support
available for Linux, and Servoy created its Developer Solution to be compatible
with Linux right from the start.”
“Using Linux as a server platform to
run SQL Anywhere and the Servoy Application Server makes a lot of sense. Not
only is it less expensive in terms of server licenses but in our experience it
is also more stable and reliable,” said Jan Aleman, CEO Servoy. “We also see
more and more of our developers switching to Linux. In the past, server
applications used to be difficult to manage but both SQL Anywhere and Servoy
provide the same easy-to-use GUI as on other platforms to make it
straightforward to manage Linux deployments and development
environments.”
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1040022.
5) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS)
Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
6) Sybase
Events
a)
Webcast – Avaki
Avaki Enterprise
Information Integration software provides a flexible, scalable and efficient way
to access, integrate and deliver disparate data to enterprise applications. By
creating a single data services layer with standardized access to multiple data
sources, including structured and unstructured data, it eliminates the
complexity of linking data with applications.
Date: Tuesday, April 25,
2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/219483?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
b) Webcast – Mirror
Activator
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.
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/5E2ED7?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
c) Webcast –
PowerDesigner
PowerDesigner is a
data-modeling and collaborative design tool for enterprises that need to build
or re-engineer applications quickly, cost-effectively and consistently. It works
with all modern RDBM systems and uniquely combines several modeling techniques
(UML, Business Process Modeling and market-leading data modeling) with leading
development environments (Microsoft .NET, Workspace, PowerBuilder, Java and
Eclipse) to bring business analysis and formal design processes to the
traditional software development lifecycle.
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/C2A90F?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
d) Webcast – Afaria
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.
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/5147CC?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
e) Webcast – Sybase
IQ
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.
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/64A167?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
7) Sybase
Training Schedule (May - Jul)
01 May 2006 4 days Mastering T-SQL Programming: Advanced
Tips and Techniques
08 May 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
15 May 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning for PowerBuilder 10: Advanced
Tips
and Techniques
15
May 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
15
22 May 2006 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
05 Jun 2006 5 days Advanced Client/Server Development
Techniques using
PowerBuilder
05 Jun 2006 2 days Advanced PowerBuilder 8.0
Controls
07 Jun 2006 3 days Mastering the DataWindow Object in
PowerBuilder 9.0
12 Jun 2006 5 days Fast Track to Unwired Orchestrator
5.0
12 Jun 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
19 Jun 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15.0
26 Jun 2006 4 days Mastering T-SQL Programming: Advanced
Tips and Techniques
10 Jul 2006 2 days Powering Up to ASE
15.0
10 Jul 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
17 Jul 2006 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
17 Jul 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
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