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The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - June 2008 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
Table
of Contents:
1)
Important
Membership Information!!
2)
SUG-TX June 24th Meeting Highlights
3)
Next SUG-TX Meeting - July 22, 2008
4)
Future SUG-TX Meetings
5)
Waters Magazine’s Readers Choose Sybase over IBM and Sungard for Best
8)
Houston
User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
9)
Sybase Training Schedule (Jul - Dec)
Please
read the following information to remain on the SUG-TX mailing
list!
SUG-TX has a new
community on the International Sybase User Group (ISUG) members’ web site as
part of its continuing participation as a local user group under ISUG. As
a community, SUG-TX has a calendar, a news sections, a forum, a file library,
and an announcement list. For those SUG-TX members that are already ISUG
members, you can go to the “Community” tab and sign up for the SUG-TX
community’s announcement list, it’s on the right side of the screen. You
can add the community to your favorites list and make it your default
community.
For those SUG-TX
members that are not ISUG members, you will need to sign up for a SUG-TX/ISUG
membership to get access to the SUG-TX community. The choices
are:
SUG-TX Before 7/1/2008 SUG-TX After
7/1/2008 ISUG – NA
Region
Associate Member $
0
$ 0
$ 0
Basic
Benefits
$20
$ 25
$ 30
Green
Benefits
N/A
$ 89
$ 99
Gold
Benefits
$95
$ 99
$119
Even after July
1st, joining ISUG through SUG-TX will save you money. To decide
which level of benefits is the right choice for you, visit:
http://www.isug.com/common/MembershipBenefits.html.
Gold level benefits include over $7000 worth of free software, all for
$99. To sign up for a SUG-TX/ISUG membership, go to the membership request
page at:
http://my.isug.com/index.php?module=sthtml&op=load&sid=s1_099_reg&pg=4
Next to “Houston,
Sybase User Group of
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
held their meeting on Tuesday, June 24, 2008. For the first time, a
virtual meeting was held along with the regular meeting to allow users from
other areas of
Don Clayton, SUG-TX president and
president of Intertech Consulting, presented part II of “PowerBuilder in a .NET
World,” continuing from a presentation at the SUG-TX meeting in April. Don
presented how PowerBuilder 11 makes it possible to produce and consume .NET
classes and provides a variety of deployment options, including DataWindow .NET
2.5 and Appeon .NET Version 6.0. The presentation included a selection of
best practices on producing and consuming .NET classes in PowerBuilder and
reviewed a number of topics related to PowerBuilder and .NET, including an
overview of .NET, PB .NET, using .NET features in PowerBuilder, translating C#
code snippet to PowerScript, consuming Web Services using .NET interop, and
using the .NET DataWindow with other .NET
languages.
3) Next SUG-TX
Meeting - July 22, 2008
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, July 22. 2008 with a presentation on
ASE 15. The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
4) Future SUG-TX
Meetings
Mark your calendar for future
topics for SUG-TX Meetings:
SUG-TX usually meets on the
4th Tuesday so add a recurring appointment on your calendar and watch
for future meeting announcements and newsletters for
details.
5)
Waters
Magazine’s Readers Choose Sybase over IBM and Sungard for Best
Waters
Magazine’s Readers Choose Sybase over IBM and Sungard for Best Enterprise Data
Management
DUBLIN, Calif. –
June 26, 2008 – Sybase®, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading
provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software and services, the
largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing
and mobilizing information, today announced that the readers of Waters magazine
voted the company “Best Enterprise Data Management
Vendor.” Sybase received 33 percent of
the readers’ votes, beating out IBM and SunGard to win the category. The
recognition of Sybase was part of the 2008 Waters Rankings, an
industry-respected award where the winners are chosen by the qualified readers
of Waters magazine, a financial
IT publication with a circulation of over 10,000.
To address enterprise data
management (EDM) challenges such as data mining, predictive modeling, reporting
and business intelligence, Sybase’s analytics server, Sybase®
IQ, works with a multitude of
operating systems, hardware platforms, and analytics applications. As the
leading column-oriented database, Sybase IQ delivers answers up to 100 times
faster than traditional RDBMS systems, and is an enterprise data manager's best
friend.
In addition, to enable real-time
decision support in securities trading, Sybase introduced Sybase RAP
– The Trading Edition™ in May 2008. Sybase RAP integrates
high capacity vector data stores, in-memory transaction processing and complex
event processing engines to deliver a robust real-time market data analytics
platform to the sell-side and buy-side institutions in the capital markets
industry.
See the full story at
http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1057302.
6) International
Sybase User Group Events
The International
Sybase User Group (ISUG) sponsors events for Special Interests Groups (SIGs),
Virtual User Groups, and members. Sign up for ISUG Membership for as
little as $20 for a basic membership and get access to events and online
material. For more details, visit:
http://www.isug.com/common/JoinISUG.html
7) Sybase
Events
Seminars,
Conferences, Webcasts, Tradeshows, Sports events — whichever way you want to get
information from
http://www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events
If you'd like to give
feedback on what types of events you think
8) Houston User
Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
9)
Sybase Training Schedule (Jul - Dec)
Jul 08, 2008 4
days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips
&
Techniques
Jul 14, 2008 5
days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part II
Jul 14, 2008 5
days Performance and Tuning: ASE 15.0 Query
Optimizer
Jul 21, 2008 5
days Fast Track to ASE
Jul 28, 2008 5
days System and Database Administration: ASE
Aug 18, 2008 5
days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
Aug 25, 2008 3
days Data Modeling with PowerDesigner 12
Aug 25, 2008 5
days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15
Aug 28, 2008 2
days Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner
12
Sep 15, 2008 5
days Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting for ASE
15
Sep 15, 2008 5
days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part I
Sep 22, 2008 5
days Fast Track to ASE
Sep 29, 2008 5
days System and Database Administration: ASE
Oct 06, 2008 5
days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part II
Oct 06, 2008 4
days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips
&
Techniques
Oct 13, 2008 5
days Performance and Tuning: ASE 15.0 Query
Opt
Oct 20, 2008 5
days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15
Oct 27, 2008 5
days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
Nov 10, 2008 5
days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part I
Nov 10, 2008 5
days Fast Track to ASE
Nov 17, 2008 5
days System and Database Administration: ASE
Nov 17, 2008 3
days Data Modeling with PowerDesigner 12
Nov 20, 2008 2
days Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner
12
Dec 01, 2008 5
days Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting for ASE
15
Dec 08, 2008 5
days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15
Dec 15, 2008 4
days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips
&
Techniques
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
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