Washington Area Informix User Group meeting - January 27, 2005

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year! ______________________________________________________________________ Our Next Quarterly Meeting is: Thursday, January 27, 2005 Time: 9:00-5:00 Location: IBM, Bethesda offices, Building 6710, Wing B Room 21B167. 6710 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 (Directions are on our web site) ______________________________________________________________________ Morning 9:00-12:00 - Two Informix Presentations by John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM * Informix Dynamic Server Backup and Restore Utilizing the new backup and restore features that have come out in the recent releases, including an overview of Point In Time Table Level Restore to ensure a reliable recovery strategy. The session will conclude with a few hints on the "Best Practices" of backup and restore. * Unlocking the Mysteries Behind Update Statistics Understanding the mysteries behind update statistics will enable DBAs to drastically reduce the time spent running update statistics. Focusing on what and how the information is collected for the optimizer will allow DBAs to tune update statistics. The talk concludes with practical examples of how DBAs can get 2x, 3x and even 4x speeds by tuning update statistics. Afternoon: 1:00-4:00 - DB2 Presentations - TBD The meeting is open to all. Please register at the WAIUG Web site. We will need a list of attendees for access to the building. http://www.iiug.org/waiug/ ______________________________________________________________________ Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com Advanced DataTools Corporation Voice: 703-256-0267 Visit our Web page: http://www.advancedatatools.com Washington Area IBM-Informix User Group: http://www.iiug.org/~waiug/ ______________________________________________________________________ sending to informix-list