Washington Area IBM Database User Group

Presentations from our Meetings

• April 3, 2008 Application Development Tools for Informix Users
  • Cool SQL aka SQL Lightning Talks by Darryl Priest - download presentation
  • Four Js Application Development for Informix by Stuart Litel of Kazer - visit 4Js web site - http://www.4js.com
  • IBM Data Studio that features pureQuery by David Beulke, Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. - download presentation
• October 30, 2007 Informix IDS 11 (Cheetah) Tech Day
  • Overview of IDS “Cheetah” - New features, results of the beta test run, and a roadmap of the future.
  • AGILE – Performance enhancements in Cheetah, application development - Deliver peak performance to your applications.
  • AGILE – IDS an Agile Choice for Application Development - Take advantage of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to deliver location based information to your applications.
  • INVISIBLE – Enter the “Administration Free Zone” - IDS is well known for 'hands-free' reliability. The new OpenAdmin Tool provides a GUI based view of all of your data server activities - starting with a map of server locations that can drill down to the detail of an individual SQL statement. Other features allow automatic scheduling to keep your weekends free.
  • RESILIENT – Availability Solutions in IDS “Cheetah” - Learn how customers achieve 99.999% availability (less than 5 minutes downtime/year), improved performance, and easy scalability.
  • RESILIENT and SECURE – Protecting your Information Assets - New security features, including Label Based Access Control (LBAC) help protect information assets. New levels of control will make it easier to isolate protected information to meet regulatory compliance requirements and gain competitive advantage.
• July 26, 2006 Meeting Presentation
  • Informix SQL Performance Tuning by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation
  • Sun and IBM databases update by Conal McDanel, Sun Microsystems
  • DB2 BCU using Sun's servers and storage by Phil Philbin, DB2 Solutions Architect, Sun Microsystems
  • DB2 Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting: A Practical Approach by Jim Cleveland
• April 5, 2006 Meeting Presentation
  • IDS 10 Deep Dive by Jacques Roy, Technical Lead, IBM WW Information Management
• October 5, 2005 Meeting Presentations
  • Informix IDS Performance Tuning - Indexes and Update Statistics by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools
  • Informix Chat with the Lab - Advances in DBMS Tools for Automating Administration and Performance Management of IDS
  • DB2 Entity Analytics Solutions by Bonnie J. Brown, IBM
  • DB2 UDB V9, Viper the beta release by Keith E. Gardenhire, IBM (Presentations is not available)
• June 7, 2005 Meeting
  • Whats new in Informix Dynamic Server 10.0 Deep Dive by Mark Scranton, IBM
  • DB2 UDB - the Basics by Keith Gardenhire, IBM
  • DB2 V8 z/OS SQL Enhancements by Charles Lewis, IBM
• January 27,2005 Meeting
  • Informix Dynamic Server Backup and Restore - by John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
  • Unlocking the Mysteries Behind Update Statistics - by John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
  • Introduction to the CopperEye DataBlade for Informix - byAlex Rivilis, CopperEye
  • How to do your own DB2 performance review by David Beulke
  • Best Practices for your DB2 UDB database system by Dwaine R. Snow, IBM Senior Product Manager for DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
    
• July 22, 2004 Meeting
  • Exploring the Informix IDS Sysmaster Database by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation
  • How to Spatially Enable Your IBM Informix Database by Chris Bosch, IBM
• January 22, 2004 Meeting
  • SQL Differences between Informix and DB2 - Bob Carts & Keith Gibert
  • Setting up Informix CSDK/ODBC - James Edmiston
  • SQLCMD Tool, An enhanced Dbaccess - Joseph Kennedy
  • Informix IDS Administration with the New Server Studio- Lester Knutsen
• July 16, 2003 Meeting
• In-Depth - IBM Informix 9.4 by  Carlton Doe,  Technical Sales Manager,  IBM Data Management
• April 10, 2003 Meeting
• Backup & Restore - Jonathan Miller III,
• Unlocking Update Statistics - Jonathan Miller III,
• Federated queries (DB2 to Informix)  - Joe Kennedy and Warren Heising
• June 5, 2002 Meeting
• SQL Tips and Tricks - Using Triggers and Stored Procedures by Peter Wages, Bob Carts, Warren Donovan
• IBM-Informix support and how it works by Janet Jandrositz, IBM 
• March 6, 2002 Meeting
• SQL Tips and Tricks presentation, covering SQL features and extensions in the latest releases - by Bob Carts and Warren Donovan 
• Informix Office Connect - by James Edmiston and Mike Terrell 
• New Features in Informix IDS 9.3 - by Joe Kennedy and Warren Heising 
• Update on the International Informix User Group - by Dawn Shannon
• IBM's Commitment to Informix Database Users! 

A Special Meeting for the Washington Area Informix User Group - September 26, 2001