6 Things Every DBA Needs to Know Education Series
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John Smedley, Ingres Senior Architect, shares his personal insights around the basics that each DBA needs to know in order to run a tight ship. His talk builds on the topics from the previous sessions and bring the points together for the user. Never fear if you missed a couple sessions along the way or looking for informational session that pulls the key points together, this session will meet your needs. Whether you are looking for information on backup, restoring your data, security, tuning your dbms, etc this talk will get you what you need.
Ingres for Oracle DBAs: The Rosetta Stone and Architectural Overview Education Series
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Experienced on Oracle and looking for an open source alternative that gives you enterprise level functionality and support? Check out Ingres! Please join Mike Sale, Director Ingres Service Product Management as he helps guide you from using Oracle to Ingres. Mike who is a certified Oracle DBA understands both worlds and will be able show you the helpful tips in understanding Ingres from an architectural perspective. He will map the terms and give you a roadmap you can follow to get up to speed quickly. If you're an Ingres user, you can see how Ingres maps to Oracle, making it easier to explain to an Oracle audience the benefits and strengths of your chosen open source information management solution.
How to Manage Ingres Using VDBA Ingres DBMS
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New user to Ingres or an experienced user looking for some help in managing Ingres? Visual DBA is a powerful tool that comes with Ingres and allows the user to manage an Ingres instance on any platform from a windows client. But did you know that the VDBA suite also includes tools for configuration management and analysis, journal analysis as well as robust import and export utilities? Please join Emma McGrattan, SVP Engineering as she walks you through how to maximize your use of the complete VDBA suite.
How to Succeed in Business by Not Really Failing - the Ingres High Availability Option Ingres DBMS
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This session will examine the Ingres High Availability Option for cluster fail over. This configuration allows automatic relocation of data services for a failed primary node to a designated secondary node. With the exception of a brief interruption for client reconnection, the physical server on which Ingres runs is transparent to the end user, and application continuity is maintained. This session will examine this facility in detail, and will describe this option in the context of other strategies for robust information handling, such as data backup and recovery and data replication.
DBMS Performance Tuning with Ingres Ingres Service and Support
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There are some simple procedures that can be undertaken when looking at a piece of SQL and wondering how to improve the performance. This session will discuss some of the steps that can be taken to improve the performance of SQL, this will include how the SQL has been constructed, to choice of table structures and indexing, performance diagnosis and testing. Please join Keith Bolam, Ingres Project Manager, as he shares his insights around improving performance with Ingres.
How to Improve Your Ingres Performance Ingres DBMS
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Are you getting the best performance from your Ingres database? Are queries taking longer than you would like, join Chip Nickolett as he shows you shares some of his tips in boosting performance from your Ingres database for today's enterprise applications.
How to Get Started With Ingres Ingres DBMS
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Please join Linda as she shares with you the basics on getting started with the Ingres Database. She will walk you through the steps around planning for Ingres as part of your solution, show you how to install Ingres, create a simple database, walk you through the loading and unloading of data in to tables and the basics around recovery.
Ingres Open Source Community Ingres DBMS
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Ever wonder how to get involved with the Ingres community? Please join Andrew Ross as he shares information about the various tools and processes that one needs to engage with in order to collaborate around Ingres products. Andrew will walk you through how to open a bug in Trac, view Ingres source in LXR, submit a code contribution, how to run the Ingres test automation, and how to engage with the Ingres community.
Starting down the OpenROAD with the Frequent Flyer Demo OpenRoad Application Development
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Join Ingres Architect David Tondreau as he examines the first OpenROAD open source project: the OpenROAD version of the Ingres Frequent Flyer Demo. David will cover the prerequisites and installation of the demo on Windows and Linux platforms, demonstrate the desktop, browser, mobile and server interfaces, describe the architecture of the demo as source code, and provide information on how to get involved in this and other OpenROAD open source projects in the works.
The Life of an Ingres Query Ingres DBMS
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Have you ever wondered what happens when you type Go? Join Doug Inkster, Ingres Architect, as he walks you through the Life of an Ingres Query. His talk will help you better understand the various steps in the execution of your query and will give you a good appreciation for the architecture of the Ingres server and, in particular, of the Ingres optimizer. You will gain valuable information that will allow for more efficient queries going forward and Doug will share some of his insights around the Ingres optimizer as he moves through this talk.
