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May 2005 General Meeting

Date:   Monday, May 2, 2005 NOTE: Meeting will be held on Monday Time:   7:00 pm Location:   North York Public Library, Room 2 / 3, see map for details Topic 1:   The real issues of designing, building and optimizing a database Speaker:   Michael Lant Topic 2:   Google Maps Speaker:   Ted Nye Topic 1: Use of Surrogate Primary Keys Proper use of foreign keys Use of Domains (InterBase) User Defined Data Types (SQL Server) When to denormalize Selection of appropriate data types for column definitions The pitfalls of some data types The hidden traps of MS SQL Server Why I really like InterBase Portability - Is the ASNSI SQL standard really a standard? What types of columns to index and when Some horror stories - Oh the things I've seen Etc.   Topic 2: Ted Nye will presenting for roughly 60 minutes about Google Maps, one of the Internet's most useful and appealing new features. He will cover: what it is how it works what people have done with it Google Maps can be found at maps.google.com In case you haven't seen the power of Google Maps, click on this link: TDUG

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