[lug] Call for Participants: Database talk for August meeting

[George Sexton]

Sean,

The format looks good. It might be nice to have at the conclusion a slide
that shows the various features in tabular format. It would probably save us
a lot of time going over it during the presentations and the conclusion.

>       For example, a quick demonstration of SQLAnywhere's
> replication would be
>             nice)

I think any kind of demonstration would take too long. I can walk through
the steps with the replication wizard and talk about the supported methods
of replication (file, email, ftp, network). I can also work up some examples
of what replication can be used for.

I can bring a machine with SQL Anywhere on it. I would also like to take a
quick look at Interbase since it was recently released under a community
source license.

It seems to me each person will want to have their own box. I can bring a 4
port KVM switch with me to the meeting along with cabling sets if that would
help out. We could get each box up and running and then just flip through
them when each presenter comes up. That might save some time. If this sounds
useful, let me know.


George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
Voice: 303 438 9585
http://www.mhsoftware.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Sean Reifschneider
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:35 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Call for Participants: Database talk for August meeting
>
>
> The August meeting will be a bunch of short presentations about
> databases.  Right now we have the following databases covered:
>
>    Aspen Database (Kevin King)
>    SQL Anywhere (George Sexton)
>    PostgreSQL (Sean Reifschneider)
>
> If anyone would be interested in giving a 15-minute mini-presentation on
> other databases, please contact me and we'll get the ball rolling.  It
> would be nice to see the following represented:
>
>    MySQL
>    msql
>    ADABASE
>    Oracle
>    Solid
>    Informix
>
> or any others that people are interested in demonstrating.  Here's the
> proposed outline which gives the information we're expecting each
> presenter to cover (any input on this would be appreciated as well):
>
>    Introduction
>       Who you are
>       Copying
>          Cost
>          License
>          Open Source?
>    Capabilities
>       Standards conformance
>       Commonly requested features
>          Transactions
>          Subselects
>          GUI Clients
>       Toolkits for what languages/interfaces
>          C, Perl, Python, PHP, Zope
>       Platforms
>          Server
>          Clients
>    Strengths
>    Weaknesses
>    Examples
>       For example, a quick demonstration of SQLAnywhere's
> replication would be
>             nice)
>    For Further Information
>       URLs
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
> --
>  "You can tune a file-system, but you can't tune a fish."
>        --  Quote from tunefs(1M) man page
> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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