Greetings,

In a previous message I detailed the outline for a presentation on
performance that I will be giving at INRUG and NERUG. I also mentioned that
I would be giving a presentation at HPworld that covered the highlights of
the TurboImage FAQ. Alas, I counted my chickens before they hatched,
overestimated the HP3000 content of HPworld, and therefore will not be
'officially' presenting at HPworld.

To compensate for not presenting at HPworld, I will be presenting 'The
Highlights of the TurboImage FAQ' at INRUG on 4/20/199  (Indianapolis, call
317-917-1399 for registration)  and NERUG on 5/11/1999 (Boston, call
703-273-7755).

I am seeking other alternatives to 'presenting' at HPworld and have been
investigating taping these presentations and publishing them on the web. If
anyone has some experience with this I would greatly appreciate any ideas
and input.

Mike Hornsby



              1    Highlights of the TurboImage FAQ
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                    Michael Hornsby
                    Beechglen Development Inc
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              2    Introduction
                    - The HP3000 is TurboImage
                    - Views of TurboImage
                    - Dbschema (the architect)
                    - Dbutil (the manager)
                    - Intrinsics (the workhorse)
                    - MPE/iX (the protector)
                    - Apache (the communicator)
              3    Summary of Course
                    - Recent additions & enhancements
                    - Impact of developing technology
                    - DBA simplificatio- & challenges
                    - System administratio- changes
                    - Programming/development issues
                    - User interfaces (gui via odbc/www)
              4    Call intrinsic _Who_
                    - DBAs?
                    - System managers?
                    - Programmers?
                    - Web administrators?
                    - HP representatives?
                    - Third parties?
              5    Dbschema highlights
                    - Jumbo Data Sets
                    - Btree Indexes
                    - Master Dynamic Expansio- (MDX)
                    - Detail Dynamic Expansio- (DDX)
                    - Shift i- Capacity Planning
                    - Blocking/Buffering changes
              6    Dbutil highlights
                    - Btrees
                    - Ciupdate
                    - Hwmput
                    - Show <dbname> Capacities
                    - buffspecs (not used)
                    - Third Party Indexing (TPI)
              7    Intrinsics highlights
                    - Dbxbegin/Dbxend (dynamic transactions)
                    - Dbfind (TPI, Btrees)
                    - Dbupdate (Ciupdate)
                    - Dbcontrol (Hwmput,autodefer)
              8    Performance suggestions
                    - Block datasets efficiently (eliminate 0s)
                    - If performing chained reads, repack.
                    - Place heaviest accessed files on SCSI(fw).
                    - If deleting use HWMPUT or repack.
                    - Use Ciupdate in place of DBdelete/DBput
                    - Watch for master clustering.
                    - Avoid Master Dynamic Expansion.
              9    Mpe/iX Highlights
                    - Logging versus mirroring
                    - OS limitations (sessions, logging)
                    - Disc/IO configurations
                    - Memory configurations (6.1)
                    - Turbostore/Orbit
             10    Apache/ODBC/Sockets
                    - Access with out sessions
                    - Browsers www dynamic data access
                    - Programming CGI/Pearl/Cobol
                    - Independence via Java/JDBC
                    - Report publication/distribution
                    - Minisoft's Middleman & ODBC
             11    Summary
                    - TurboImage is the HP3000
                    - TurboImage is a world class OLTEP DBMS
                    - New features make DBA simpler
                    - New technologies are less expensive
                    - Implementing www on HP3000 is a snap