The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - December 2005 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of Contents:
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – January 24,
2006
2) SUG-TX Launches ASE
15
3) 2006 ISUG Board of Directors
Elections
4) Always On? Not Quite
Yet
5) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6) Sybase Events
7) Sybase Training Schedule (Jan -
Mar)
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – January
24, 2006
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, January 24, 2006. Jeff Wayt of IOBar, Inc, will
have a presentation on two subjects: 1) Date Intervals- Strategies for Recurring
Events implemented in Powerbuilder, and 2) Email Empowering Your Powerbuilder
Application. Date Intervals are
useful, coded expressions of calendar events that can be stored in a database
and used in date math, similar to that seen in MS Outlook's Calendar. The strategy is database and language
neutral, although there will be samples of PowerBuilder PFC-based source code
available. The Email topic will show how to implement the Code Exchange version
of PBNI SMTP to make & send emails in a PowerBuilder application without
using Outlook/MAPI. A lively
discussion of how to make management more robust will
ensue.
The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
2) SUG-TX Launches ASE
15
SUG-TX invited Jeff Tallman, Sybase
Evangelist, to
·
On-Disk
Encryption – Encrypt data on disk (and into backups) without any application
modifications.
·
Smart
Partitions – Break down very large tables into several smaller tables, either by
key, hash-code, range of values or round-robin.
·
New
Query Processing Engine – Greatly enhance the performance of complex queries.
When coupled with two other new features, Computed Columns and Function Indexes,
some customers have seen reductions of up to 80% of reporting time on mission
critical reports.
ASE 15 includes more features than
Jeff had time to cover. Check out
more on ASE on http://www.sybase.com/ase.
3) 2006 ISUG Board of Directors
Elections
ISUG, the International Sybase User
Group, is holding elections for the Board of Director positions for 2006. The ballot is available online in the
Members Only section at My.ISUG.com.
If you're an ISUG member, be
sure to vote before this Friday,
December 23, 2005. Support the
Houston area SUG-TX members that are
running for the following positions:
Cindy Bean –
President
Cynthia Gill – Vice President of
Finance
Kathy Ridley – Marketing
Director
4) Always On? Not Quite Yet
Mobile
database market faces evolving compute models, but a handful of best practices
still hold true
By
Geoff Koch of SD
Times
December 15, 2005 —
Always-on
computing is set to arrive any time now, according to tech optimists shouting
from the mountaintops. Word is that, because of expanding spheres of wireless
broadband availability and more powerful mobile devices, the era of cubicle-only
access to applications, even big enterprise databases, is poised to pass away
for good.
Read the full story at http://www.sdtimes.com/article/special-20051215-01.html.
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) Conference – TechWave
2006
Save
the Date! Sybase TechWave 2006 will
be held in
TechWave, Sybase’s
largest annual technical training conference, is the place to meet the experts,
hear first hand what’s new, and network with thousands of industry professionals
like you. Start planning today!
Watch http://www.sybase.com/techwave for
more details.
7) Sybase
Training Schedule (Jan - Mar)
09 Jan 2006 5 days Advanced Client/Server Development
Techniques Using
PowerBuilder
09 Jan 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
15
16 Jan 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
30 Jan 2006 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
06 Feb 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
13 Feb 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning for
PowerBuilder 10: Advanced Tips
and Techniques
13
Feb 2006 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming:
Advanced Tips &
Techniques
27
Feb 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
13
Mar 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
15
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
Hilton
Computer Strategies
6001 Savoy, Suite
207
Contact: 713-782-6665
Register: www.hiltoncomputer.com
09 Jan 2006 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an
Project Management Solution
13 Feb 2006 2 days PMPI: Project Management Professional Preparation
I
16 Feb 2006 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional
Preparation II
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to: secretary@sugtx.org
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