October 17 SIRDUG Meeting Featuring Susan Lawson
WHEN? October 17 (Friday)
WHERE?
IBM Harris Blvd facility
IBM Harris Blvd facility (Charlotte, NC) - See directions below
COST? $25 cash or check, per day, at the door.
We do not accept credit cards.
October 17
Featured Speaker - Susan Lawson
8:00 - 9:00 - Registration - Coffee, Danish, and Networking
9:00 - 10:10 - "Table and Index Design for High Performance"
10:10 - 10:30 - Break
10:30 - 12:00 - "V8 Impacts on Design and Performance"
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 - SIRDUG Business Meeting (Elections)
1:15 - 2:30 - "Top 20 DB2 Performance Myths: Demystified"
To pre-register please email registration@sirdug.org and give us your name and
company. If you are not already on our distribution list and wish to be,
include your email address and phone number.
Pre-registration must be completed by Midnight, Friday, October 10th. Please
feel free to invite others from your company (just make sure
they pre-register as well). If you know others in your company who are
interested in attending future SIRDUG events, please encourage them to
become members of our distribution list (we just need their names, email
addresses and phone numbers).
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. Go through gate (tell them
that you are here for a SIRDUG meeting). 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.
Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a
strong background in system and database administration, and is a principal
with YL&A. In the past, she has been an IBM Data Sharing advocate where she
supported a variety of large DB2 customers. She provided technical expertise
for migration to DB2 Data Sharing in a Parallel Sysplex environment, as well
as troubleshooting performance problems during post-implementation. She
currently works with several clients to help develop, implement and tune some
of the world's largest and most complex DB2 databases. Her other activities
have included authoring articles, presenting at user group meetings (where she
has won best speaker awards), and providing technical editing for trade
journals. She is an IBM GOLD Consultant for DB2 and S/390, and is an IBM
Certified DBA and Application Developer for DB2 UDB Version 7 for OS/390.
She is one of the authors of "DB2 Answers!" published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill,
"DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning" published by Prentice-Hall, "DB2 UDB
for OS/390 Version 7 DBA Certification Guide" published by Prentice-Hall,
“DB2 UDB for OS/390 Version 7 Application Development Certification Guide”
and “DB2 UDB V7 Family Reference Guide” published by YL&A.
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