ANN: ******AZIUG MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT******
The next Arizona Informix User Group (AZIUG) meeting will be held on Wednesday, 18 June, 2003. >>>>> >>>>> The first 25 people to arrive at the meeting >>>>> will receive a free DB2/Informix Arrowhead poster!! >>>>> Time: 2:00 to 5:00 PM ===== Place: IBM Data Management Solutions ====== Room 213 2929 N. Central Ave Phoenix, AZ 85012 602-820-8361 (see directions below) Agenda: ======= 2:00 - 2:15 PM Welcome and Sign-In User Group Business 2:15 - 3:00 PM Chuck Kelley Chuck Kelley is an internationally known expert in database technology. He has over 25 years experience in design and implementing operational/production systems and data warehouses. Mr. Kelley teaches seminars on SQL, Database Internals, Implementing the Data Warehouse, Designing and Implementing the Star Schema from Your Operational System, and other database and data warehousing topics. He has co-authored a book with W. H. Inmon on data warehouse; co-authored "Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions from the Experts", and has third book to be available soon. This presentation will discuss seemingly impossible data warehousing situations based on the book "Impossible Data Warehousing Situations: Solutions from the Experts". 3:00 - 3:15 PM XPS Roadmap Mohan Natraj, IBM XPS Product Manager 3:15 - 3:30 PM Break 3:30 - 4:30 PM Implementing a Data Warehouse with IBM Informix XPS Raj Muralidharan Raj Muralidharan is a Consulting IT Specialist with IBM Data Management. He has over 15 years of experience in the database industry, the last 10 years as an employee of Informix/IBM. He was a member of the Advanced Technology Group while at Informix. He has worked with XPS since 1997 and has presented at Informix User Conferences on many XPS related topics. Learn about the differences between IDS vs. XPS, specifically on how to get maximum performance from XPS. Fragmentation strategies, queries, data loading, table types and more... 4:30 - 5:00 PM Networking Meeting Room and Refreshments Courtesy of IBM NOTE: Please RSVP to Robert Roll (see below) no later than Friday, June 13th, 2003. AZIUG Officers: Paul Mosser President mosserp@wellsfargo.com Deborah DeCorrevont Vice President - Communications Deborah_DeCorrevont@choicehotels.com Robert Roll Vice President - Membership rroll@supreme.sp.state.az.us James Young Vice President - Programs JYoung@gf.state.az.us Directions: The IBM Data Management Solutions office building is located at the NE corner of Central Ave and Thomas Road. The corner contains a group of towers including a Hilton. The parking structure is on the street on the North side of the block. From Central northbound you would take the first right on Catalina after passing Thomas and then turn right into the parking garage.