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Listed below are some of the more recent presentations that SCI has given at various conferences and user group seminars. View the presentation online by simply clicking on the title.

 

Rdb Security - Keeping the bad guys out and the auditor happy

Bryan Holland, founder and president of SCI, will be presenting on industry standard protocols for securing your Oracle Rdb databases.  Drawing on his 20+ years of experience managing 100’s of Oracle Rdb databases Bryan will offer best practice ‘tricks and tips’ to keeping the bad guys out and the auditors happy.

 

What I've Learned Managing hundreds of Mission-Critical Rdb Databases

When properly configured and managed, Oracle Rdb provides a highly-reliable, high-performance database environment that is ideally suited for mission-critical applications where down-time is not an option. However, poor design, configuration problems or operational management issues can lead to performance, reliability and availability problems -- and loss of data.

This session focuses on the basics of Rdb database administration, based on 20+ years of experience supporting Rdb data abases in a variety of environments. This session provides a guide to "best practices" for managing Rdb databases, including both what you MUST do -- as well as what NOT to do. We will cover everything from the basics of file-placement and backup strategies to more advanced topics like implementing a high-performance Row Cache and Hot-standby databases.

While specific to Rdb, many of the "best-practices" also apply to other database engines... 

This presentation was given at the 2009 HP Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas, NV USA on June 16, 2009 by Bryan Holland, President and Founder of SCI

OpenVMS Integrity Migration Experiences

Since the release of OpenVMS on Integrity in early 2005, HP has been promoting the ease of migration to OpenVMS on Integrity servers. But, is it really that easy? With proper planning and execution, and some experiences we'll share in this session, we've found that migrations can be almost as easy as HP promotes.

This session is a study of multiple, real-world, customer migrations: two mission critical OpenVMS clusters (1 VAX, 1 Alpha) to 3 Integrity clusters and 5 standalone VAX servers migrated to standalone Integrity servers. This session will focus more on the project level aspects, the planning, design, implementation and management of the migrations, drawing on the experiences of actual migrations. We'll discuss the processes and methodologies we've developed doing migrations, the problems we've encountered and how we solved them, etc.

This will not be "yet-another-integrity-porting" session -- this is the real thing, based on real customer experiences. 

This presentation was given at the 2009 HP Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas, NV USA on June 18, 2009 by Brad McCusker, formerly of HP's OpenVMS engineering group Brad manages SCI's OpenVMS System Services business.

ALPHA/AXP + DBMS v7.0 = AMAZING MANMAN® AND WORKSTREAM® PERFORMANCE
This presentation discusses the benefits of deploying DBMS in an Alpha environment. Included in this discussion, is a review of those features of DBMS that are available only in an Alpha environment. If you are looking to migrate to or optimizing DBMS in an Alpha environment, this presentation is a must.

Presented by Kevin Bickerdike to an audience of MANMAN® users at the CAMUS Conference in San Diego, CA USA on March 7, 2001. Kevin is a database support analyst at Software Concepts International with several years of DBMS experience. A WorkStream version of the presentation was made by Bryan Holland, President and Founder of SCI, at the Consilium IUG Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA USA on October 11, 2000.

DBO SHOW STATISTICS
DBO SHOW STATISTICS provides in-depth performance data about the DBMS run-time environment. Understanding how to interpret this data will enable you to analyze bottlenecks, troubleshoot problem areas and optimize database performance. While the presentation was made to a CODASYL DBMS audience, the STATISTICS information discussed in this presentation will also apply to all Rdb sites. If you are interested in optimizing your Rdb or DBMS environment, sit back and enjoy our presentation.

This presentation was given at the CAMUS Conference in Las Vegas, NV USA on August 24, 1999 by Kevin Bickerdike, one of SCI's Database Support Analysts.

RECOVERY STRATEGIES FOR ORACLE Rdb & ORACLE CODASYL DBMS DATABASES
Preparing for a disaster is a critical responsibility of the DBA. In this presentation, Bryan Holland describes how to evaluate and develop effective recovery strategies for Rdb and DBMS databases. Going beyond a discussion of simple backups, Mr. Holland discusses recovery strategies in the context of efficient recovery times and protecting against geographical disasters.

This presentation was given at the Consilium IUG Conference in Monterey, CA USA for WorkStream® users on October 11, 1999 by Bryan Holland, President and Founder of SCI.  Mr. Holland also gave the presentation at the CAMUS Conference in Boston, MA USA for MANMAN® users on August 9, 2000.

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