SIG Meeting
I've just gotten the verbal OK from my line manager to attend the Management and Infrastructure SIG meeting on 4th October . Most of the opresentations look like they will be both interesting and useful. My employer is looking to introduce ITIL so the "Can it help me? What are the pitfalls?" presentation could be useful, similarly the DBA/Database ratio presentation is highly relevant to my current environment. The VLDB and Datawarehouse talks should be useful as some of ourdatabases are growing to be pretty huge, partly just datagrowth but also because we're getting situations where two or more separate applications (each with their own database) are being collapsed into one, total data volume has probably fallen but the data is now all in one place rather than being spread over two or more servers. There's currently a big discussion going on about where the DBAs should sit in the organisation. In the background to the discussion are questions about what a DB...