Queensland Ingres
User Group Events 2008

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 2008 calendar year:

8 October 2008

October Meeting Agenda

Date:             8 October 2008

Time:             3:45pm for a 4.00pm start

Venue:          Conference Room
                      Level 5, AXA Building
                      144 Edward Street, Brisbane

Agenda:       4pm        Welcome from QIUG President, John Howell.

                               Lucky Door Prizes

 

                 4:10pm   INGRES Development Projects – Stephen Ball, Director, Engineering, Ingres Corp

                               Stephen Ball is the Director of Engineering of Ingres Corp and has recently moved to Australia. Stephen has enormous knowledge of Ingres and started developing Ingres for RTI in the late 1980s. Stephen told us about the current Ingres development projects underway at Ingres Corporation, the new features in Ingres 9.2 and gave us a valuable insight into the community and enterprise Ingres versions; you can find more about some of these projects at http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Ingres_Projects. Stephen's presentation can be found here. .

 

                               

                 5pm        Networking, Nibbles and Refreshments compliments of Ingres Corporation

 

23 July 2008

July Meeting Agenda

Date:             23 July 2008

Time:             3:45pm for a 4.00pm start

Venue:          Conference Room
                      Level 5, AXA Building
                      144 Edward Street, Brisbane

Agenda:       4pm        Welcome from QIUG President, John Howell.

                               Lucky Door Prizes

 

                 4:10pm   Hibernate and Spring

                               Robert Acraman gave us an overview of Hibernate and Spring.  Hibernate is the Java based Object-Relational mapping Java library.  The Spring Framework is an open source application framework for the Java platform.

 

                 4:55pm   Questions

 

                 5pm        Networking, Nibbles and Refreshments compliments of Ingres Corporation.

 

28 May 2008

May Meeting Agenda

Date:             28 May 2008

Time:             3:45pm for a 4.00pm start

Venue:          Conference Room
                      Level 5, AXA Building
                      144 Edward Street, Brisbane

Agenda:    4pm        Welcome from QIUG President,  John Howell

                 4:05pm    ABF Code Transformation – Simon Lovell

                               The Transforge tool has been successfully streamlining the transformation of ABF applications into OpenROAD GUI applications for some years now.  Simon Lovell shared with us some of his experiences in modernising ABF applications using Transforge and OpenROAD.

 

                

                 5:00pm    Networking, Nibbles and Refreshments complements of Ingres Corporation.

 

26 March 2008

March Meeting Agenda

Date:             26 March 2008

Time:             3:45pm for a 4.00pm start

Venue:          Conference Room

                      Level 5, AXA Building
                      144 Edward Street, Brisbane

Agenda:       4pm        Welcome from QIUG President, John Howell.

                 4:10pm   INGRES Business Intelligence Appliance presentation. 

                               The INGRES Business Intelligence Appliance is one of the many new and exciting products from INGRES Corporation, combining  the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite with the  INGRES 2006 database and Linux as a software appliance with a single point of contact for support.

                               This Appliance provides Business Intelligence solutions, from reporting, analysis and dashboards to complete data integration with existing systems. It comes with ETL, OLAP, report design, delivery and security and can dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs.

                               Sidney Glenn from Ingres Corporation demonstrated the INGRES Business Intelligence Appliance and was keen to answer questions.

                 5pm        Networking, Nibbles and Refreshments compliments of Ingres Corporation.

 

26 November 2008

November Meeting Agenda

Date:             26 November 2008

Time:            3:45pm for a 4.00pm start

Venue:          Conference Room

                      Level 5, AXA Building
                      144 Edward Street, Brisbane

 

Agenda:       4pm        Welcome from QIUG President, John Howell.

                 4:10pm   INGRES Managing incrementing keys with Ingres.  

                               Managing tables that use incrementing keys can pose several unique challenges with any database product. John Howell showed us some of the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques of managing such tables through choice of table structure, indexes, locking strategies and table partitioning.

                 5pm        Networking, Nibbles and Refreshments compliments of Ingres Corporation.

      

Meeting agendas of previous years:

2007 Meetings

2006 Meetings

2005 Meetings

2004 Meetings

2003 Meetings

2002 Meetings

A Notice of Meeting is mailed to our members prior to each meeting. Click here for more information on membership.