Fwd: Comparisons of Open Source & Licensed DBMS Products

Hello,

Technical Account Management(TAM) of  IST is hosting a  class on Comparisons of Open Source & Licensed DBMS Products. This one day seminar is intended to provide audiences with an introductory look at the comparative advantages and disadvantages of developing database applications on today’s most popular platforms. The seminar will focus on Open Source (MySQL, Postgres) and licensed products (Oracle, MS-SQL Server) and will conclude with a brief Q&A session.

This One-day course is scheduled to be held:
 
DATE:        ;  May 7, 2007
Time:      ;     9 AM to 5 PM.
Location:    74 Barrows Hall Training Room

The course has no formal prerequisites.  If there are only 10 students, the cost for the class is $200.00 per student, If there are 16 students the class will cost $125.00 per student.    Class outline and details about the course are listed below. Limited to 16 spaces in the course. All campus staff are welcome to apply. If you or member of your staff would like to attend this course, please e-mail as soon as possible to tamberkeley.edu, and please include the information specified in the course registration form displayed below.

Regards,
Gary Thackeray

Class Outline:

Comparisons of Open Source & Licensed DBMS Products
 
Seminar Topics
 
General Information
History & focus of Oracle & MS-SQL Server
History & focus of My SQL & Postgres
 
Operating System Support
Use of Hardware & Software Resources
Use of File Management, GUI & Networking facilities
Memory Allocation & Prioritizing Processes
 
Fundamental features
ACID Property Support
Transactions
Referential Integrity
Unicode Support
 
Tables & Views
Support for Materialized Views
Support for Temporary Tables
 
Index Support
B-Tree, R-Tree Support
Hash & BitMap Support
Partial, Reverse Index & Expression Support
 
Support for Other Objects
Cursors, Triggers & Domain Support
Function, Procedure & External Routine Support
 
Partitioning Support
Range, Hash & Composite Support
List Support
 
Truly Relational vs Object Relational vs Object Oriented DBMS Support
Advantages & Disadvantages of these architectures
Conclusions
 

 Registration Form

1) Name:

2) Title:

3) Employee ID:

4) Department:

5) Telephone:

6) e-Mail:

7) Name of Person to Contact about Department Payment for Course Fee:
 
8)  BFS Chartstring: ______________________________________

9) Payment Contacts Telephone Number:

10) Payment Contacts e-Mail Address
 


Gary Thackeray
Technical Account  Manager 
Client Services (CS/IST)
2195 Hearst Ave Suite 250-59
University Of California, Berkeley 94720
voice: (510) 642-9555
email: bearsgstberkeley.edu