New presentations

I was putting my IUA presentation on our website when I discovered a few
others that should have been posted a while ago, including one from last
year.

If you go to http://www.rationalcommerce.com/papers.htm you will find the
following five new presentations:

1. Choosing the Optimal Page Size; this includes some handy graphs which
make it easy to "eyeball" when your row size is a poor fit to your chosen
page size

2. The Ingres Janitors Project; my call-to-arms presented at the Engineering
Summit in April. Most of the issues flagged have been resolved or at least
moved on

3. Ingres Applications with PHP; an account of adding a public-facing
Internet application to an extremely mature application

4. Ingres 2006 New Features; presented at IUA 2007 last summer

The fifth presentation is Emma McGrattan's write-up on the development
sprint run the weekend before the IUA conference this year. I've
temporarily posted it here as a "guest presentation" because it is of wider
importance and interest than the IUA conference and it won't be posted on
the IUA website for a few weeks yet.

I also updated the zip file containing the Practical Applications of Table
Partitioning presentation to include a PDF with a syntax diagram of the
MODIFY...TO RECONSTRUCT WITH PARTITION statement. Figuring out valid syntax
from the pseudo-BNF spec in the manual is probably the biggest obstacle to
getting started table partitioning!

Roy

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