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

 


 

DBI is an IBM Advanced Business Partner

 


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:

  1. You PARTICPATE
  2. We DONATE

Participation

  1. 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.

  2. Submit START OF CONTEST DB2 Snapshot data to DBI by 5pm CDT June 6 2008: Start Instructions

  3. 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.

  4. Submit END OF CONTEST DB2 Snapshot data to DBI by 5pm CDT June 19 2008: End Instructions

  5. 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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 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

  American Cancer Society

  American Red Cross

  American Heart Association

  Big Brothers Big Sisters

 


Questions


Please email questions regarding this charity contest to:
charity.event
"at"
dbisoftware.com