Topic for Consideration:
January's LAPUG meeting will be held at the Fox Media Building in the City of Santa Monica. This month we are planning a round of lightning talks and are looking for speakers to talk about anything that's RDBMS related for about 5 to 10 minutes. We already have some speakers scheduled, so take this opportunity to to sign-up and tell us about what interests you!

I wanted to thank everyone that has offer to present at January's meeting. The following is a list of speakers and topics:

Konstantin Antselovich
- Modelling Message Boards and Mailboxes in SQL

Richard Broersma
- Modelling Trees in SQL

Brian Dolan
- Likelihood Models in the Data Warehouse

Juan Jose Natera
- ORM with Rose::DB::Object

Time:
January 21, 7:30 pm (Wednesday Evening)

Location: Vote for your favorite meeting Location
Fox Media Building.
2500 Broadway,
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Map:
Map to Fox Media

Instructions:
Fox Interactive Media is located on the second floor of 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Fox shares a complex with Yahoo and are in the exact same building as HBO. Fox is along the Broadway edge, closest to the tennis courts. If entering from the street (where you should be able to find plenty of parking) you want to head toward the north-east most building near the tennis courts.

After 7pm, the elevator requires a pass. Noelle Sio and David Hubbard from Fox Interactive will be helping us get people up and down. We'll be in or near the meeting room from 6pm onwards. The actual meeting room is directly above the lobby. We can easily see you if you stand outside and wave. Once we stop laughing at your unfortunate fate, we'll come down and let you in.

You should park on the street. The pay lot closes at 7 and I haven't set up validations. See you there!

Taking a head count:
Feel free to invite anyone that may be interested in coming to a PUG meeting. For those that are planning to attend please send an email to the LAPUG mailing list. (If food can be provided, it will help to know how much to bring.)

November's LAPUG Recap:
Paul Salazar presented a discussion on Greenplum; what features it has and how it compares to its competitors. In addition to this, the presentation touched lightly on some concepts of data warehousing. He gave away some nice swag (including an IPod) at the end which was very nice of him!

I hope to see everyone at the next LAPUG meeting!

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Topic for Consideration:
November's LAPUG meeting will be held at Caltech in the City of Pasadena. Paul Salazar the VP of Corporate Marketing at Greenplum Inc. will be delivering a presentation on the basics of Data Warehousing, On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) and how the Greenplum Database server supports these application domains.

Paul would like additional feedback on points for discussion. So if anyone would like specific features addressed in the meeting regarding Data Warehousing, OLAP, or Greenplum, please email these points to the LAPUG mailing list or post a comment to this blog.

Time:
November 19, 7:00 pm (Wednesday Evening)

Location: Vote for your favorite meeting Location
Steele 214 in Caltech.
370 South Holliston Avenue,
Pasadena, CA 91106

Map:
Map to Caltech
Campus Map

Taking a head count:
Feel free to invite anyone that may be interested in coming to a PUG meeting. For those that are planning to attend please send an email to the LAPUG mailing list. (If food can be provided, it will help to know how much to bring.)

September's LAPUG Recap:
Michael Chen delivered an excellent presentation for the basics of implementing Slony. Michael pointed out that while Slony is a very powerful replication strategy, it also has a steep learning curve. One of the first recommendations was not to follow the slony tutorial in its recommended setup. It seems that the tutorial demonstrates replication between two PostgreSQL instances running on the same server. While this eases the learning curve by focusing only on learning the Slony interface, it shields the user from pitfalls that will be encountered when configuring two separate servers to communicate successfully with one another. Another point made was need for the user to develop his or her own api layer on top of SLONY that simplifies many low level tasks that Slony exposes. The api layer will be dependent upon the replication topology that is designed by the user,

On a side note, I have to mention that I am continually impressed by the immense skill, knowledge, talent, and intelligence that seem to be common with the PostgreSQL users that find their way to various LAPUG meetings. Maybe every users group leader feelings this way, but I can't help but feel that there must be something special about PostgreSQL that attracts people of this caliber. It reminds me of a movie I once saw with the line: "If you build it. They will come!" :)

Anyway I hope to see everyone at the next LAPUG meeting!

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