The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - September 2005 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of Contents:
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – September
27th
2) Sybase Database Customers Recognized as
Leaders in Winter Corporation Survey Results
3) Sybase Unveils ASE 15, The
Mission-Critical Data Management System for Taming the Data Explosion
4) iAnywhere Unveils Sales Anywhere For
Salesforce
5) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6) Sybase Events
7) Sybase Training Schedule (Sep -
Dec)
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting - September
27th
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, September 27th. Come to the September SUG-TX meeting for
a wrap up of the TechWave 2005 Conference.
SUG-TX board members Don Clayton, Kathy Ridley, Cindy Bean, and Cynthia
Gill attended TechWave and will review the information presented
Agenda:
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Introduction/Welcome
4:30pm - 5:30pm
TechWave 2005 Review
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Wrap Up
6:30pm
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Post meeting discussions at Champps
Americana (at
the Uptown location)
The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
2) Sybase Database Customers Recognized as Leaders in Winter
Corporation Survey Results
DUBLIN,
Calif. — September 19, 2005
— Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and
mobile software, today announced that Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise and
Sybase IQ customers — including, Citadel, comScore Networks, GuangDong Telecom
Co.Ltd., Health Insurance Review Agency and Nielsen Media Research — received a
total of 26 Winter Corp. 2005 TopTen awards. Of the 26 awards received by Sybase
customers, 18 were in the DSS category and eight were in the OLTP category.
“With
the market-leading price-performance, ability to efficiently handle terabytes of
data, and low total cost of ownership experienced by our Sybase ASE and Sybase
IQ customers, there’s no question as to why our customers’ technology
achievement is being recognized by the Winter Corporation,” said Kathleen
Schaub, vice president product marketing, Sybase Information Technology
Solutions Group. “The databases our customers maintain are impressive, and we
are proud to be linked to their success.”
The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1037607.
3) Sybase Unveils ASE 15, The Mission-Critical Data Management
System for Taming the Data Explosion
DUBLIN,
Calif. — September 12, 2005
— Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and
mobile software, today announced the latest version of its enterprise-class
relational database management system, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.
Sybase ASE has established itself as one of the most cost-effective data
management platforms for business-critical computing, and builds on that
reputation with key enhancements that give IT managers an operational advantage.
Sybase
ASE 15 includes patented query processing technology that has shown increased
performance and reduced hardware resource consumption. Additionally, it provides
enhanced query performance through the use of smart partitions, which target
just the information required.
Sybase
ASE 15 extends management of unstructured and semi-structured data with advanced
XML capabilities, and improved ease of XML document generation and schema
validation. ASE 15 also includes extended services for directly accessing
unstructured data in operating system files, and is now bundled with the core
server –in previous versions it was sold separately.
The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1037440.
4) iAnywhere Unveils Sales
Anywhere For Salesforce
DREAMFORCE
'05,
Sales
Anywhere for Salesforce from iAnywhere was announced today in
The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1037451.
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 - Creating
and Deploying Always-Available Mobile Web Applications with M-Business
Anywhere
Join John Karabaic, Senior Systems Consultant with iAnywhere, for this webcast designed for the IT professional who has downloaded, installed and began development with M-Business Anywhere. During the webcast John will explore intermediate-level development techniques for refactoring always-connected Web applications for always-available use, including the following: M-Business Refactoring: Model/View/Controller on the Device
- Making
It Always Available: Offline HTML, JavaScript and Data
- Making
It Personal: Customizing the Individual User Experience
- Making
It Seamless: Managing the Connection and Sessions
Using
examples from popular application server technologies, included J2EE-based
servers, John will explore practical ways to take existing always-connected
applications and make them mobile, always-available, personalized and
seamless.
Date: Thursday, September 22,
2005
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
CDT
Register at http://crm.sybase.com/sybase/www/iAS/web_apps.jsp?tpl=syb.
b) Webcast - Leveraging
Presented by
Panasonic, Padcom and iAnywhere Solutions
Date: Thursday, September 22,
2005
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm CDT
Register at http://www.xcellenet.com/Form.aspx?FormID=44.
c) Webcast - New Generation Data Management System -
Sybase ASE 15
During this one-hour session, Irfan Kahn, Director of Engineering, Worldwide Evangelism for Sybase, Inc., will describe the new, advanced features of ASE 15 and you will hear Brian Taylor, Sr. Database Administrator of Nielsen Media Research, talk about his experiences with this new product. This seminar will specifically address:
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Unique security features for protecting personal data
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New query processing engine with a patented optimizer for faster response to complex queries
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Expanded storage engine that maximizes performance by enabling data partitioning
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And a host of other new features that save DBA time and system resources
Live
and interactive, this one-hour Web seminar is being offered on two different
dates for your convenience:
Date: Tuesday, October 4 or Thursday,
October 6, 2005
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/forms/ASEWBCSTGAREG?&mc=CC.
7) Sybase
Training Schedule (Sep - Dec)
26 Sep 2005 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
03 Oct 2005 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
10 Oct 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring
ASE
17 Oct 2005 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
31 Oct 2005 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
07 Nov 2005 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming:
Advanced Tips and
Techniques
14 Nov 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
05 Dec 2005 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
12 Dec 2005 3 days Reporting with InfoMaker
9.0
12 Dec 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring
ASE
19 Dec 2005 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
19 Dec 2005 4 days Advanced Administration and
Troubleshooting for ASE
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
Pre-register
5
days PB101: Basic Programming Using
PowerBuilder
Pre-register 5 days PB301: Advanced Programming Using
PowerBuilder
07 Nov 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional
Preparation I
10 Nov 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional
Preparation II
28 Nov 2005 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an
Project Management Solution
09 Jan 2006 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an
Project Management Solution
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