August 18-19 SIRDUG Educational Seminars Featuring Bonnie Baker
WHEN? August 18 (Thursday) & August 19 (Friday)
WHERE?
IBM Harris Blvd facility (Charlotte, NC) - See directions below
COST? $195 cash or check, per day, at the door.
We do not accept credit cards.
August 18
Featured Speaker - Bonnie Baker
8:00 - 9:00 - Registration - Coffee, Danish, and Networking
9:00 - 12:15 - Bonnie Baker "More Things I Wish - Part 8"
12:15 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 - Bonnie Baker "More Things I Wish - Part 8"
August 19
Featured Speaker - Bonnie Baker
8:00 - 9:00 - Registration - Coffee, Danish, and Networking
9:00 - 12:15 - Bonnie Baker "More Things I Wish - Part 9"
12:15 - 12:55 - Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 - Bonnie Baker "More Things I Wish - Part 9"
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Registration Note
SIRDUG will be calling or emailing a confirmation for each person who
pre-registers by the deadline. If you have pre-registered and have not
received a confirmation by the day after the deadline, please notify us as
your registration may not have been received.
If you have not pre-registered by the deadline, you may pre-register after
the deadline or register at the door, but the availability of presentation
handouts and lunch can not be guaranteed and confirmations will not be sent.
The meeting is in the IBM Harris Blvd facility
North bound on I-77 (from the Rock Hill direction): Turn right onto I-85
North and follow next directions.
On I-85 (coming from either direction): Take exit 45B onto Harris Blvd.
West Turn Left at 2nd stop light onto IBM Drive and follow directions below.
South bound on I-77 (from the Statesville direction) Turn left onto
Harris Blvd. East (exit 18) Go approximately 6.3 miles to the 10th
stop light (counting the one at top of I-77 ramp) Turn Right onto IBM
Drive (Don't turn onto the IBM Drive at the 7th stop light).
Once on IBM Drive, Turn Right at 2nd drive. Look for the SIRDUG parking sign
on the right side of the road. We are to park in the lower visitor parking
lot. Enter the Visitors Lobby and follow the SIRDUG signs to the Cafeteria
Conference Room.
Bonnie Baker is a consultant and educator specializing in applications performance issues on the DB2 OS/390 and z/OS platforms. She is an IBM DB2 Gold Consultant, a five-time winner of the IDUG Overall Best Speaker award, and a member of the IDUG Speakers' Hall of Fame. She is best known for her series of seminars entitled "Things I Wish They'd Told Me 8 Years Ago." She is a
frequent speaker at the U.S., European, Australian and Canadian DB2
Technical Conferences and IDUG's as well as many local DB2 user groups
(like ours!!). She tries
to bring her 'hands-on' 'from-the-trenches' perspective to her
presentations to provide real-life solutions to real-world problems.
Educational Seminar Details
Part 8 is an ALL NEW full day seminar that includes more programming hints
and tips from Bonnie Baker to help you write better programs and fix
performance problems in existing programs.
This session continues the
tradition by offering tips and techniques for improving DB2 application
performance and for understanding how DB2 works and thinks. Included are
SQL DOs and DON'Ts, Index tricks, DSNZPARM settings that affect
application logic and other valuable information.
New topics include:
1) What makes SQL Ugly?
2) SQL APAR news
3) Result sets in DB2
4) Index Design Basics
5) Index Tricks
6) RETVLCFK Issues and a V8 Improvement
7) Bufferpool Density Issues
8) Erroneous Program Logic
"Things I Wish They'd Told Me 8 Years Ago, Part 9" is also an ALL NEW full day
seminar that includes even more programming hints and tips from Bonnie Baker
to help you write better programs and fix performance problems in existing
programs.
New topics include:
1) Programming tasks that must be completed in order to move to V8
2) Estimating RID Sort size
3) SQL Predicate ANDing and ORing Issues
4) ONLINE REORG and ONLINE LOAD versus Programs
5) DELETE where columns NOT in (Select from...)
6) Data sorts eliminated, Locking problems increase
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