Calling all Sybase DBA's
We would like to extend an invite to join our new free community... The Sybase DBA Development Program...
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Managing the Data Explosion: Peter Thawley's Musings
Hi! I’m Peter Thawley, a Senior Director and Architect in the CTO Group at Sybase. With nearly 20 years of work with Sybase products, both as a customer and an employee, I’ve experienced the full gamut of Sybase’s highs and lows. Most of you know me as the original author of sp_sysmon and a performance & tuning guy. Today, I spend a lot of my time working with customers on some of the more difficult problems they face in distributed data management – some of it is operational type of work with DBAs, some architectural with application development teams.
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Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers!
Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers! John Strano here, Technology Evangelist for Sybase. You know, I really do consider myself ‘Joe PowerBuilder’, having been a developer, having taught PowerBuilder, and having learned a mountain of stuff from those who'd program rings around me when I first met them. Frankly the greatest source of what I’ve learned over the last 17 years is my peers. Guess where the greatest concentration of your peers will be this year? Of course, TechWave. PowerBuilder has been more than central to my career, just like for many of you. And to keep both our careers moving full steam ahead, I've been working with the PowerBuilder teams to assemble technical sessions that’ll be presented by some talented peers, education sessions and an informative plenary session covering the latest and greatest news we have for PowerBuilder. This’ll all be showcased at “PowerBuilder Central”…our annual TechWave conference held in August.
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Minnesota ISUG Event on June 18th
There will be a meeting of the Minnesota Sybase User Group (MNSUG) on June 18th. The meeting is being held in downtown St. Paul at the Landmark Center which is a really nice venue.
We are doing a full day session with data management covered in the morning, a lunch (free food!), and tools in the afternoon. Getting both the DBA group and the developer group together can be a little tough, and we hope this is a good format to bring the two groups together, at least for lunch.
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TechWave Registration is now open!
Join us Aug. 4 – 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference.
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Sybase at EclipseCon this week
Sybase is one of the silver sponsors for EclipseCon2008. Some of us will be at the sybase booth. Note that the exhibit hall pass is free
and you can sign up online. DTP and Sybase are going to be represented in various talks and tutorials. Please stop by if you've any
DTP/Sybase questions. You may also want to stay for one of the evenings as most of the evenings there is a party
sponsored by one of the companies. Stop by at the booth if you just want to find out which is the cool party ..)
Tutorials
- Implement Schema Editing Based on Delta DDL (Dafan Yang, Sybase)
- Data Applications in Eclipse: The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (Sheila Sholars, Loic Jullien, IBM; John Graham, Sybase)
- Enabling support for a new database or data source in Eclipse (Philippe Ombredanne, EasyEclipse/nexB)
Long Talks
- Introducing DTP Open Data Access Framework (Linda Chan, Actuate)
- Introducing the DTP SQL Query Builder (Brian Payton, IBM)
Short talks
- Creating Windows Mobile Database Applications with Eclipse (Jose Ramos, Sybase)
- Push for Usability of Data Tools Wizards (Brian Fitzpatrick, Sybase)
- DTP Help-Helper Plug-in (John Graham, Sybase)
TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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Kaazing - Real time messaging from a browser!!
I recently read about this company Kaazing. They were one of the participants in "DEMO". They claim to be solving one of the biggest deficiencies in Web 2.0 world, where this new breed of RIA cannot communicate in a bi-directional way in real time. If they attempt to do so like some of the companies like Meebo do, they will put tremendous pressure on network and resources.
http://gigaom.com/2008/01/28/demo-kaazing-turns-regular-browsers-into-real-time-apps/
From the very limited information available on the web, they seem to be translating java client code into javascript that can run inside the browser. I'm not very clear on how they accomplish the real time connectivity without the polling if the application running inside the browser cannot be listening on open socket connections. For them to solve the problem of polling frequently which they claim is issue with all the existing AJAX solutions, they'd have to start a listener within the browser and wait for the server to keep sending messages. I'd assume in a lot of cases, for security reasons, this may be disallowed. This may not be an issue for consumer applications which are the ones that they may target initially consider the deployment volumes of these kinds of applications.
At the end, it could be an application of messaging technologies with a different client consumer model but would probably be more relevant to this quickly multiplying number of AJAX applications.
Would be interesting to read more about their technology once they've more information up on their website.
More 2008 Thoughts...
Will 2008 be the year of Connecting Users in the Enterprise?
Personally I think 2008 will be a great year and this is why...
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