Queensland Ingres User Group Events 2006

The Queensland Ingres User Group Inc meets on the last Wednesday of each odd numbered month.

All are welcome, however because we are a self-funded group, non-members will be encouraged to join. 

The QIUG Management Committee has tabled the following events for the 2006 calendar year:

6 December 2006	December AGM and Christmas party Date: Wed 6th December 2006 Time: 3:45pm for a 4.00pm start Venue: Conference Room Level 5, AXA Building 144 Edward Street, Brisbane Agenda: Welcome from President QIUG John Howell, Queensland Disability Services Queensland Government A short presentation on the implementation and technology behind the shift2ingres open source product. This product is the winner of the CA ‘million dollar challenge’ and converts Oracle and DB2 databases, along with related indexes, database procedures, views, grants, sequences and triggers to Ingres R3. It also provides a JDBC driver that dynamically translates Oracle SQL to Ingres R3 SQL, so the original application can run unchanged. A number of Oracle scalar functions and data types are implemented in Ingres R3 using the Ingres Knowledge Management tool. Open Forum Questions and Answers QIUG Annual General meeting Business Presentation of Annual Report Election of Office Bearers: · President · Vice President · Secretary · Treasurer · Members at Large (2) We called for nominations for committee positions for the 2007 year. Note that all positions will become vacant at our Annual General Meeting on 6th December 2006. Please nominate yourself or a candidate for one of the 6 positions available. Drawing and Presentation of Prizes Christmas Party, networking and Refreshments
13 November 2006	November Ingres Roadshow Meeting Agenda Date: Monday 13th November 2006 Time: 3:30pm for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference Room Level 5, AXA Building 144 Edward Street, Brisbane Agenda: Welcome from President QIUG Ingres Corp Speakers Bill Maimone - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering Mr. Maimone leads Ingres‘ worldwide engineering team in architecting and delivering the next generation of open source database solutions. Mr. Maimone brings 20 years of Oracle database architecture management to Ingres. Most recently, Mr. Maimone served as a vice president in Oracle‘s Server Technologies division with responsibility for its collaboration software, including content services and records management.   For more than 10 years, he led Oracle‘s innovation in data security, including pioneering technology developments and advances within the U.S. and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) security bodies. While at Oracle, Mr. Maimone also managed worldwide, cross-functional groups of developers working on identity management, SQL language and runtime services, directory services, globalization, query optimization, and data dictionary. David Tondreau  - Architect, OpenRoad David Tondreau is a software architect, entrepreneur and manager with over 20 years of experience in relational database and application development technologies - 18 of those years in and around Ingres and OpenRoad.  At Ingres Corp., Mr. Tondreau is the primary architect responsible for visual tools development.  He led the recent overhaul of the OpenRoad Workbench, Ingres' integrated development environment for 4GL applications. Prior to Ingres, Mr. Tondreau was Vice-President of Development at CA where he managed the development of the IDE and transformation tools.  He later served as the Director of Product Management for Ingres.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Tondreau founded two software technology firms.  Open Forum Questions and Answers: Bill Maimone - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering       David Tondreau  - Architect, OpenRoad Steve Faris, Director of Sales and Operations, Asia Pacific/Japan Stuart Pike, Country Manager, Australia/New Zealand Networking and refreshments
31 May 2006	May Meeting Agenda Date: Wednesday 31st May 2006 Time: 3:30pm for a 3:45pm start Venue: Conference Room Level 5, AXA Building 144 Edward Street, Brisbane Agenda: Welcome from President QIUG Update from INGRES Corporation Upgrading from OpenIngres 2.0 to Open Source Ingres r3 John Howell, Queensland Disability Services Queensland Government The Queensland Department of Emergency Services upgraded their INGRES applications from OpenIngres 2.0 to the Open Source INGRES release 3. John related his experiences and discoveries during this process. The Datallegro Data Warehouse Appliance John Howell, Queensland Disability Services Queensland Government The Data Warehousing appliances by Datallegro use INGRES in a highly scalable, parallel, shared-nothing configuration using large numbers of disks and processors. John showed us the philosophy, technology and cost and performance advantages of these Data Warehousing appliances. Since this presentation, the Datallegro appliances have been improved. The Datallegro website can be found here. Review and discussion of TOP TEN issues with INGRES Open Forum Questions and Answers Networking and refreshments
24 February 2006	February Meeting Agenda Date: Friday 24th February 2006 Time: 9:15am for a 9:30am start Venue: Conference Room Level 5, AXA Building 144 Edward Street, Brisbane Agenda: 9:30AM Welcome from President QIUG Open Forum Questions and Answers Presentation from INGRES Corporation INGRES Corporation staff attending include: Doug Inkster UK Technical Specialist John Sullivan Support Manager, Asia and South Pacific Michael Coney Executive VP World Wide Sales and Support Andy Allbritten SVP Support and Services Pamela Fowler VP Worldwide Support 11:00AM Ingres r3 New Features and the Optimizer Doug Inkster - UK Technical Specialist Doug detailed the new improvements in the INGRES DBMS, focusing on the improvements to the optimizer, parallelism within queries and table partitioning. 12:00PM Lunch compliments of INGRES Corporation.

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