Contest Prizes
All Expenses Paid badges and trips to IBM IOD Conference
Free DBI Software Licenses for 1 year
Awards for:
Most Improved Database
Best Tuned Database
Best Performance Improvement, overall, multiple databases
Judging Criteria
Logical Read I/O per Transaction
Sorts per Transaction
Sort Times
Rows Read Cost
Index Read Efficiency (IREF)
Bonus!
Participants demonstrating performance improvement may earn
DBI Certified Performance Hero
status complete with:
- Certificate of Achievement
- Certified Performance Hero T-shirt
Rules & Terms
The fine print.
From the Press Release:
"This reminds me of the Pay It Forward movie and movement" said Scott Hayes, President & CEO of DBI. "Our intent is to help a lot of people, directly and indirectly. Several DBI team members have had their lives touched by cancer and diabetes, and others are active Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Good goes around. This is a good thing we are doing. We hope database professionals around the globe will participate" Hayes added.
The Biggest Loser:
Cutting Costs with IBM DB2 & DBI
Charity Event & Contest
Update: Charity Voting Results
Participants have voted for their favorite charities. DBI's charity donations for participating databases and 1% of Q2 2008 new license sales will be distributed as follows:- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 35%
- American Cancer Society, 29%
- Big Brothers Big Sisters, 24%
- American Heart Association, 6%
- American Red Cross, 6%
Making a difference couldn't be easier:
- You PARTICPATE
- We DONATE
Participation
- Register for, and participate in,
the "Tuning for Charity Kickoff" Webinar
on 5th June 2008 at 10:30am CDT:
Registration Link. Participants will vote for
the charities during this Webinar.
Alternate time @ 4:30pm CDT: Registration Link.
- Submit START OF CONTEST DB2 Snapshot data to DBI by 5pm CDT June 6 2008:
Start Instructions
- Tune your DB2 LUW databases. Using DBI performance tools
Brother-Eagle™,
Brother-Panther™,
and
Brother-Thoroughbred™
is NOT required, but is STRONGLY recommended to maximize your results and increase
your odds of winning. Product trial keys will be made available to registered Kickoff Webinar
participants.
- Submit END OF CONTEST DB2 Snapshot data to DBI by 5pm CDT June 19 2008:
End Instructions
- Register for, and participate in, the "Tuning for Charity Results" Webinar
on 25th June 2008 at 10:30am CDT:
Registration Link
Alternate time @ 4:30pm CDT: Registration Link.
Prizes
- The participant submitting the "Best Tuned" database will receive a fully paid
conference badge to the
IBM Information On Demand Conference, October 26 - 31, 2008 -
Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada, with paid Travel & Living expenses up to $1,750.00 USD, plus:
- 1 FREE Brother-Eagle™ Enterprise Edition for DB2 Desktop license
- An extra 10% off any new, additional DBI licenses
- The participant submitting the "Most Improved" database will receive a fully paid
conference badge to the
IBM Information On Demand Conference, October 26 - 31, 2008 -
Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada, with paid Travel & Living expenses up to $2,000.00 USD, plus:
- 2 FREE CPU licenses of DBI Brother-Panther™ and Brother-Thoroughbred™
- 1 FREE Brother-Eagle™ Enterprise Edition for DB2 Desktop license
- An extra 10% off any new, additional DBI licenses
- The organization submitting performance data demonstrating "The Most Overall Performance
Improvement" for multiple databases will receive two fully paid
conference badges to the
IBM Information On Demand Conference, October 26 - 31, 2008 -
Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada, with paid Travel & Living expenses up to $4,000.00 USD (total), plus:
- 4 FREE CPU licenses of DBI Brother-Panther™ and Brother-Thoroughbred™
- 4 FREE Brother-Eagle™ Enterprise Edition for DB2 Desktop licenses
- An extra 20% off any new, additional licenses
Pay it Forward
Database Tuning
for CHARITY
for CHARITY
For each contest participant, DBI will donate $25 to the charity pool
1% of DBI Q2 2008 new license sales will be donated to the charity pool
Contest participants will "Vote" for their favorite charities, and the charity pool funds will be
distributed to the charities on a pro rata basis according to the participant votes
The Charities
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Questions
Please email questions regarding this charity contest to:
charity.event
"at"
dbisoftware.com
