9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 
 

9:10 "To Index or Not To Index in DB2"

-- Kevin Colton, Precise Software Solutions  

Avoid over or under estimating the importance of DB2 indexing. Discussion includes details on index structure, how indexes point to data, index sorting, physical sort order and efficiency, and index statistics and their importance to performance tuning

10:35  User Group news and updates  
 

10:45 "DB2 and Linux: Customer Adoption across Platforms"

-- Bill Wong, IBM  

Bill's presentation will describe the current state of IBM's customers' adoption of Linux technology on both 390 and workstation platforms and how some customers are leveraging this environment to provide value at their installation

1:00 "The Top 10 Things I Learned at IDUG 2002"  

-- Phil Czachorowski, CSC  

Phil will share what he learned at this year's IDUG conference where he wasboth a presenter and attendee. We will hear his insights on the IBM database trends and directions as well as his analysis of the DB2 place in the DBMS firmament. This should be a fun presentation as Phil has a broad and deep perspective on database technology.

1:45 "Business View of the Database Landscape 2002"  

-- Charlie Perkins, Fidelity Investments  

Charlie developed this presentation in speaking to Boston area college database classes. He brings the lessons he has learned in a large, complex, heterogeneous database shop to bear on the vendor trends in today's database marketplace. As part of the analysis, he will present recent Dataquest market share numbers and give his opinions on their meaning.

Speaker Bios 

Kevin Colton, Precise Software Solutions  

Kevin Colton is Director of Systems Engineering for Precise Software Solutions, the industry-leading provider of enterprise application performance tuning solutions. Kevin has spent the last 6 years with Precise Software, beginning as a performance engineer and moving up to his current role where he is responsible for pre-sales product support, implementation, and strategic planning. Prior to joining Precise Software, Kevin spent over a year as a consultant for Sybase, 5 years as a middleware specialist for Information Builders, and over 4 years as an application developer.

Bill Wong, IBM  

Bill Wong is a Program Director from the Toronto Lab, and spends his time as an evangelist for IBM data management solutions on Linux and in Life Sciences. Bill has been a DB2 systems programmer, DBA, and held a number of development and technical support roles. He has been supporting the DB2 product on the Intel and Unix platforms since IBM first introduced it to the marketplace. He is coauthor of the DB2 Certification Guide on Linux, Unix, and Windows and is often found traveling around the world speaking at conferences and customer sites.

Phil Czachorowski, CSC

Phil is no stranger to our group. As a founding father of the New England DB2 Users Group and current board member, he is fully vested in our retirement plan. His database roots go back to IMS and his DB2 background includes Beta-testing with Version 1. At IDUG this year, Phil presented "Experiences Using DB2 With MQSI V2 and XA." You can count on Phil to dispense some real pearls of database wisdom every time he presents.

Charlie Perkins, Fidelity Investments

Charlie is current chairman of the New England DB2 Users Group and has been working in database roles for 25 years (prior to which he still remembers writing COBOL programs). He manages a database group that supports Sybase, Oracle, DB2 (OS/390 and UNIX) and an occasional Microsoft SQL Server.