Washington (DC) Informix Users Group Training Day
Washington (DC) Area Informix Users Group Training Day - Wednesday, March 26 ----------------------------------------- Advanced registration is required, and ALL are welcome! TIME: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm LOCATION: University of MD, College Park AV Williams Engineering Bldg. FEE: $5* (includes lunch) SESSIONS: 1. ENTERPRISE DATA SECURITY, by Summit Data Group. How do I assess risk? How much data security is enough? This seminar will present a summary review of a proven method to accurately assess data security risks and an approach to define and evaluate security safeguards. Most importantly, the methodology focuses on the need to map security vulnerabilities to key/critical business processes in order to identify acceptable levels of assurance and to prioritize the implementation of security safeguards. The seminar will highlight common risk areas with respect to confidentiality and privacy, system and data integrity, and system and data availability. 2. MIGRATING TO INFORMIX-ONLINE 7.X FROM SE OR 5.X, by Mike Tinius. This session will discuss upgrading to Informix OnLine 7.X on Unix or Windows NT. Planning your installation, converting data, performance tuning and database administration will be covered. 3. WEB PAGES FROM YOUR INFORMIX DATABASE, by Lester Knutsen. A practical seminar on "How to produce Web pages" from your database. We will examine several options from simple Unix shell scripts and Informix ACE reports that generate web pages to the free 4GL and ESQL/C CGI kits from Informix. This session is an introduction to CGI programming. 4. QUERY OPTIMIZATION, by Kevin Fennimore. This discussion will cover the following topics: indexing strategies, steps used in optimizing queries, output from the Set Explain command, and query optimization techniques and examples. There will also be time to discuss queries provided by the group. If you have a specific query you would like to discuss please e-mail it to me in advance at kfenn@worldnet.att.net. Please include relevant information (schema, counts, indexes, etc.), your name, and telephone in case I have any questions. 5. DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH THE WEB DATABLADE, by Michael W. Chaney. Mr. Chaney will present the HAZMAT demo he developed for Informix Federal, and discuss the time line, resources, and technical expertise that went into its development. He will compare the capabilities of the Informix technology versus the competition, discuss the advantages (text recognition -- no typing necessary) and limitations (photo recognition), identify and discuss the different DataBlades that were used, and present sample SQL code lines. Michael will also discuss other uses of the technology, what is to come, Universal Server, other DataBlades, and conduct a Q&A session. 6. BENEFITS OF DATA WAREHOUSING, by Hyong Y. Kim. Mr. Kim will discuss OLTP vs. OLAP, the growth rate of data, and data warehouse market revenue forecast. He will review a simple data warehouse architecture, ROLAP, the star schema, the snowflake schema, and MOLAP. Inmon's data warehouse definition will be discussed, as well as various characteristics of data warehouses: subject oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile, detail vs. summarized data, and drill downs. * The $5 fee will be collected at the door. If your membership is not current, the $20 annual membership fee will be added. ___________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION FORM - PLEASE FAX BACK TO (703) 491-4567 ___________________________________________________________________ Name: _____________________________________________________________ Company: __________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________ City, ST, Zip: ____________________________________________________ Phone: _________________________________ Email Address: ____________________________________________________ CHECK THE 2 SESSIONS YOU PLAN TO ATTEND: 1. ____ Enterprise Data Security 2. ____ Migrating to INFORMIX-OnLine 7.X From SE or 5.X 3. ____ Web Pages From Your Informix Database 4. ____ Query Optimization 5. ____ Developing Applications with the Web DataBlade 6. ____ Benefits of Data Warehousing DIRECTIONS: >From the Capital Beltway/Interstate 495 north of DC, take exit Route 1 south. Continue south on Route 1 about 2.5 miles and turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediate right onto Paint Branch Drive, proceed 1.5 blocks to A.V. Williams Bldg. on right after intersection with Stadium Drive. Park on left in Lot G. We look forward to seeing you there! FAX BACK: (703) 491-4567 WASHINGTON AREA INFORMIX USER GROUP 4216 Evergreen Lane, Suite 136 Annandale, VA 22003 ############################################################################# # Washington Area Informix User Group: http://www.access.digex.net/~waiug # #############################################################################