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			Coming February 15, 2012 ODBC: 20 Years of Innovation That Empowers Today’s Big Data Enterprises The need for organizations to cost-effectively and reliably connect applications and growing data sources is more pressing than ever in the Era of Big Data. Join Jesse Davis, Director of Research and Development for Progress DataDirect, and Thomas Wilson, Publisher of Database Trends and Applications, for an in-depth discussion on the advantages ODBC delivers today's data-intensive enterprises. Sponsored by: Progress DataDirect This is a FREE E-Broadcast event! Register Today! or Click Here for more information.

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For information on sponsoring a DBTA magazine Web Event, please contact Thomas J. Wilson(tom@dbta.com).

			Embrace Big Data, Don't Drown In It In a well-written, well-tuned application, over 90% 0f data access time is spent in middleware. And the data connectivity middleware plays a critical role in the growing requirements regarding high-performance import and export of data bulk loads. In this webinar we will discuss a number of bulk load use case scenarios including: Data Warehousing, Data Migration, Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Data Publication. Sponsored by: Progress DataDirect Original Broadcast Date: Nov. 30, 2011
			How a Retail Giant is Making Big Gains with Big Data Analytics One of the most interesting examples of how big data analytics can improve business operations comes from the retail giant, Barnes & Noble. By using SQL-MapReduce® processing, Barnes & Noble was able to easily and cost effectively: make massive amounts of data available to its audience, reduced analysis time from weeks to hours, and monitor every product line in its 2,000+ stores in real-time. Sponsored by: Aster Data and Tableau Software Original Broadcast Date: Nov. 03, 2011
			Optimizing Oracle PL/SQL Applications to Boost Performance Oracle PL/SQL lies at the core of hundreds of thousands of applications around the world, so it is extremely important that this code run as efficiently as possible. In this concluding session of our two-part series, Steven Feuerstein, one of the world's leading Oracle PL/SQL experts, explores features of the PL/SQL language that can have a dramatic, order-of-magnitude impact on the performance of PL/SQL program units. Sponsored by: Quest Software Original Broadcast Date: Oct. 27, 2011
			NoSQL - The Time is Now Join us as we continue our educational series of Webcasts on NoSQL technologies. In our October 13th Webcast, DBTA will introduce Citrusleaf, a real-time NoSQL database built for high-velocity, mission-critical applications. Guest speakers include Brian Hopkins from Forrester Research speaking on the 4Vs of Big Data and Mike Davis from The Trade Desk speaking on how they are using NoSQL for real-time bidding and behavioral targeting applications. Sponsored by: Citrusleaf Original Broadcast Date: Oct. 13, 2011
			Optimizing Oracle PL/SQL Applications Series Oracle PL/SQL lies at the core of hundreds of thousands of applications around the world - and those applications will be running for years to come. It is critical that we write PL/SQL code so that it can be repaired and enhanced as easily and quickly as possible. In this first of two webcasts for DBTA, Steven Feuerstein, one of the world's leading Oracle PL/SQL experts, will demonstrate key techniques for improving the readability and maintainability of your PL/SQL applications. Sponsored by: Quest Software Original Broadcast Date: Sep. 27, 2011
			Big Data 2.0: The Post-Relational Reality Sets In Join Database Trends and Applications president Tom Wilson and MarkLogic Corporation's Edd Patterson, VP Technical Solutions for a special one-hour webcast that will re-focus your attention toward the nature and scope of the unstructured data challenge, and enlighten you on the key challenges managers face as this emerging information asset becomes more broadly recognized as a competitive and decision-making tool. Sponsored by: MarkLogic Original Broadcast Date: Sep. 08, 2011
			An Introduction to InfiniteGraph, Connecting the Dots to Find Meaning in Big Data InfiniteGraph, the distributed and scalable graph database, was designed specifically to traverse connections and provide the framework for a new set of products built to provide real-time business decision support and relationship analytics. This presentation examines the technology behind InfiniteGraph and explores a couple of common use cases involving very large scale graph processing. Sponsored by: InfiniteGraph Original Broadcast Date: Aug. 16, 2011
			Using SQL to Explore Any Data on Hadoop in the Cloud Join us for the third in an educational series of webcasts focused on managing and leveraging big data. In our February 17 webcast, DBTA will tackle the issue of exploring and analyzing data of any type via Hadoop in the cloud. Attend this live web event to learn how Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a hosted Hadoop web service, combined with Karmasphere Analyst provide a rapid onramp to Big Data using SQL. Sponsored by: Amazon and Karmasphere Original Broadcast Date: Feb. 17, 2011

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For information on sponsoring a DBTA magazine Web Event, please contact Thomas J. Wilson (tom@dbta.com).