The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - September 2007 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)


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Table of Contents:

 

1)  Next SUG-TX Meeting – October 23, 2007

2)  SUG-TX August Meeting Highlights

3)  Sybase IQ Powers World's Largest Green Data Warehouse Including Unstructured Data

4)  Sybase Wins 2007 CRM Elite Award

5)  Sybase Events

6)  Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

7)  Sybase Training Schedule (Oct - Mar)

 

 

1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – October 23, 2007

 

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, October 23, 2007.  The meetings are held at HAL-PC, 4543 Post Oak Place, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77027 (map).  Members frequently continue discussions at Champps Sports Bar after the meeting while waiting for traffic to subside.  More information will be sent in October.

 

 

2) SUG-TX August Meeting Highlights

 

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas held their August meeting on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.  The first topic was a wrap up of the TechWave 2007 conference, held August 6th through 10th in Las Vegas.   SUG-TX secretary Cindy Bean reviewed the DBA topics of interest then SUG-TX president Don Clayton reviewed the developer topics.

 

The second half of the meeting was an Appeon vs PowerBuilder Bake-off by SUG-TX president Don Clayton.  Don reviewed the steps to take a PowerBuilder application to the web with Appeon using the SUG-TX member portal.  He showed the same steps with PowerBuilder 10.5 and discussed some new benefits with PowerBuilder 11.  Both products have their advantages and limitations depending on which PowerBuilder functions are used in the application. 

 

 

3) Sybase IQ Powers World's Largest Green Data Warehouse Including Unstructured Data

 

DUBLIN, CA — SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, that Sybase IQ powers the world’s largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report, “Sun Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data,” August 2007.

 

The significant benchmarks were achieved in large part due to the unique compression capability of Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server not only for compression but also for query performance and lightning speed load performance. Sybase IQ demonstrated capability that allows organizations to easily future-proof their data warehouses and analytics systems using technology available today. The world’s largest data warehouse depends on Sybase IQ’s unique compression capability to store one petabyte of raw data including unstructured data (emails, documents and multimedia) using only 160 terabytes of storage. This huge savings in storage achieves a 90 percent reduction in CO2 emissions. Organizations using this architecture will be able to scale their data warehouses well beyond today’s requirements at substantially lower storage costs, lower cooling requirements and lower energy costs than alternatives. Smaller data warehouses can also expect similar results.

 

See the full story at: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054047.

 

 

4) Sybase Wins 2007 CRM Elite Award

 

DUBLIN, CA — SEPTEMBER 5, 2007 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has won an enterprise-level CRM Elite Award from CRM magazine’s 2007 Market Awards program. The award highlights the best, measurable results and ROI (return on investment) from customer relationship initiatives and recognized Sybase for its innovative integration of applications developed by Eloqua and salesforce.com.

 

“Sybase is one of a select group of companies that have demonstrated not only a strong commitment to improving customer relationships, but also an innovative ability to use market-leading technologies,” said David Myron, editorial director of CRM magazine.

 

See the full story at: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054018.

 

 

5) Sybase Events

 

Seminars, Conferences, Webcasts, Tradeshows, Sports events — whichever way you want to get information from Sybase, they deliver!   Check out future events at:

 

http://www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events

 

If you'd like to give feedback on what types of events you think Sybase should offer please email them at events@sybase.com

 

 

6) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

 

The Houston User Group for Sun meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the Houston Sun office.  The next meeting will be on October 9th with a presentation on Data Protection and Disaster Recovery by Bill Sovak.  To be added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer at Blummer@computer.org.

 

 

7) Sybase Training Schedule (Oct - Mar)

 

     Sybase Dallas Learning Center

     14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505

     Dallas, Texas 75240

     Contact:  972-687-6400

     Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE

            

01 Oct 2007  3 days  Data Modeling with PowerDesigner 12

04 Oct 2007  2 days  Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner 12

08 Oct 2007  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part I

15 Oct 1007  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part II

15 Oct 2007  5 days  EAServer Administration

22 Oct 2007  3 days  EAServer: Developing Web Applications with Enterprise

                      Java Beans

22 Oct 2007  5 days  Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting for ASE

29 Oct 2007  5 days  Fast Track to Replication Server Administration

29 Oct 2007  5 days  Performance & Tuning: ASE 15 Query Optimization

05 Nov 2007  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

12 Nov 2007  5 days  System & Database Administration: ASE

26 Nov 2007  5 days  Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advances Tips and

                      Techniques

03 Dec 2007  5 days  Performance & Tuning: Configuring ASE 15

10 Dec 2007  5 days  Performance & Tuning for PowerBuilder 10: Advanced Tips

                      and Techniques

17 Dec 2007  3 days  Data Modeling with PowerDesigner 12

20 Dec 2007  2 days  Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner 12

07 Jan 2008  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part I

07 Jan 2008  5 days  Performance & Tuning: ASE Query Optimizer

14 Jan 2008  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part II

14 Jan 2008  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

21 Jan 2008  5 days  System & Database Administration: ASE

28 Jan 2008  5 days  Fast Track to Replication Server Administration

04 Feb 2008  5 days  Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advances Tips and

                      Techniques

11 Feb 2008  5 days  Performance & Tuning: Configuring ASE 15

03 Mar 2008  2 days  Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner 12

03 Mar 2008  5 days  Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting for ASE

10 Mar 2008  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

17 Mar 2008  5 days  System & Database Administration: ASE

 

Please verify class availability with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL

 

 

Send news to: secretary@sugtx.org

 

Do you have suggestions for our group?  Let us hear them.  We have new web site features that include member self-service functions and member feedback capabilities.

 

Would you like to present your Sybase solutions to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas?  The group is always looking for compelling presentations for our monthly meetings.  Let us hear them!

 

Please forward this newsletter to anyone interested in learning more about Sybase products.  To be added to or removed from the SUG-TX mailing list, send an email to secretary@sugtx.org.