In case you haven't heard, the annual IIUG Conference for 2012 takes place
April 22nd - 25th at a new location in San Diego, CA.

Here is a sampling of some of the topics that will be presented at the
conference:

*A Guide to Securing the Database*

The enterprise database infrastructure houses a gold mine of information
highly coveted by malicious hackers and spiteful insiders. As database
threats escalate and the government tightens compliance regulations, the
need for database security is imperative.

*What a DBA Needs To Know About Assert Failures*

Assert Failures can be extremely confusing to the newer/intermediate DBA.
This session to go into as much detail as necessary to understand what the
problem is, what caused it, and what you can look for to determine whether
or not you have an actual data problem or are facing a product defect of
some type. The session will explore the af.file and any possible work
around for case studies presented.

*What's new in IDS Indexing?*

Learn about the new index types in IDS, including Forest of Trees and
partial column index. The session also explores some of the new index
controls including extent size manipulation and create if not exists.

*Do--Stats Better - AUS pre-11.xx and doing AUS better than AUS*

The Informix Version 11.10 Auto Update Statistics feature is a good idea,
but it is not available if your organization is still on an Informix
version earlier than 11.10 or if you are using ANSI mode or non-logged
databases. Learn how you can implement Auto Update Statistics in these
environments. Even if you are using version 11.10 or later, AUS may be
taking excessive resources to run and if you have large numbers of tables,
the AUS Evaluator may never complete and your AUS runs may not be
processing all tables. Learn how you can do AUS the "right" way.

*Mobilize your data with Informix & Android*

What are the new challenges for mobile applications? This conference
addresses the issues regarding security, offline operation, and business
intelligence features, etc.

*Eat OATs? Keeping Healthy with Informix’s Graphical OpenAdmin Tool*

Understand the capabilities and architecture of OAT, OpenAdmin Tool for
Informix. This will be an overview of the capabilities of OAT, highlighting
such things as, Replication, Query Tracing, Storage Optimization,
Performance History Graphs, Auto Update Statistics, Space Management, along
with its many other capabilities.

*Index Design: Myths, Realities, and Magic*

This presentation will review index structure, and discuss a number of ways
to use and redesign indexes without affecting application integrity.

*Automatic database tuning and monitoring with Informix*

This session will explain how Informix can help enterprises better manage
their database administration operations, reducing down-times as well as
the overall time taken in database management. We will discuss different
automatic tuning features available with Informix, as well as different
database administration activities that can managed dynamically.

*Open Source tools and Informix Warehousing*

This presentation will give an overview of using Open Source tools with
Informix in the Warehousing arena.


We also have confirmed the following tutorials for Sunday April 21st

*Discovering and using Informix TimeSeries (Half-day) by Carlton Doe (IBM)*

You've been hearing about TimeSeries for a while. It’s part of the IBM
Smarter Planet but what is it and what does it take to use it? This
tutorial will give you hands-on experience with this exciting technology.

*Hands-on with Informix Warehouse Accelerator (Half-day) by Carlton Doe
(IBM)*

Informix Warehouse Accelerator enables customers to get results to
analytical queries hundreds to thousands of times faster. This tutorial
will give you an introduction to, and some hands-on experience with this
new and exciting technology.

*HELP!!! I need an Informix Disaster Recovery plan! (Half-day) by Rakesh
Naik (IBM)*

Don't have an Informix Disaster Recovery (DR) plan or not sure if your DR
plan is adequate? Want to experiment with Informix DR strategies? This
tutorial will first walk you through the different tools, utilities, and
features you can use to develop a DR strategy within Informix, including
ontape, onbar, archecker, external, load/unload, mirroring, and HDR. You
will then understand the pros and cons of various DR strategies. It will
then be time for you to exercise Informix DR operations as a result of
various failure situations - including performing DR due to instance,
dbspace, and Primary server failures, recovering dropped tables, using
mirrored disks to restore down dbspaces, and recovering using external
backups. While conducting these experiments, you will also learn how to
monitor the DR operations (data transfers, threads, servers, etc) for
troubleshooting and tuning purposes. Discussions about the efficiency your
DR strategy and/or plans will also be welcome throughout.

Website: <http://www.iiug.org/conf>www.iiug.org/conf

April 22nd - 25th in San Diego, CA

Art S. Kagel
Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions
and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any
other organization with which I am associated either explicitly,
implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of
other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor
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