mLogica and its principal resources are well published in the field of Databases, Business Intelligence and Application Development. This includes books, white papers, periodicals, and journals; and speaking engagements at a variety of events, tradeshows, and seated seminars.

Vazi Okhandiar – Ms. Okhandiar is responsible for solutions and engagement management for mLogica. She has over 20 years of experience in managing, architecting, designing and implementing of information technology projects for large clients.

• Migrating Legacy Client/Server PowerBuilder Apps to Web-Enabled PB Apps, PowerBuilder-Sys-con, June 17, 2009 (PDF)

• Power Builder Tutorial, Deploying Web Form .NET applications to IIS in Vista
  PowerBuilder-Sys-Con, Aug 1, 2008 (PDF)

• Choosing More Effective Keywords To Increase Traffic To Your Website
  Irvine Chamber of Commerce, Business Connection, July 2004

• “Using Technology To Improve Communication Between Student, Parent and School” Presentation at the School-to-Career Conference in Anaheim, CA, 2004.

• Building A Website For Your Company
  Irvine Chamber of Commerce, Business Connection, July 2003

• “Steps for developing a Website”, Irvine Chamber of Commerce, 2003.

• Article on Education Planning Management Information System (EPMIS), St. Lucia, 2001

Jeffrey Garbus – Mr. Garbus has 20 years of expertise in architecture, tuning and administration of Sybase ASE, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases with an emphasis on assisting clients in migrating from existing systems to pilot and enterprise projects.

Books

• “Microsoft Transact-SQL: The Definitive Guide”, Wordware, May 2010

• “Administrator's Guide to Sybase ASE 15”, Wordware, April 2006

• “Sybase ASE 12.5 Performance and Tuning,” Wordware, August 2002

• “Sybase ASE 12.5 High Availability Server,” Wordware, March 2002

• “Systems Administrator’s Guide to Sybase ASE 12.5,” Wordware, January 2002

• “Learn to Administer Microsoft SQL Server 2000,” Wordware, March 2001

• “Learn to Administer Microsoft SQL Server 7,” Wordware, March 2000

• “MCSE Database Design on SQL Server 7 Exam Cram,” Coriolis Press, July 1999

• “MCSE System Administration of SQL Server 7 Exam Cram,” Coriolis Press, June 1999

• “Optimizing SQL Server 7: Planning and Building a High Performance Database,” Prentice-Hall, January 1999

• “Microsoft 6.5 Unleashed,” SAMS (Macmillan), March 1997

• “Microsoft 6.0 Unleashed,” SAMS (Macmillan), March 1996

• “Sybase System 11 Unleashed,” SAMS (Macmillan), April 1996

• “Sybase System 11 DBA Survival Guide,” SAMS (Macmillan), May 1995

• “Sybase DBA Survival Guide,” SAMS (Macmillan), April, 1995

Periodicals

• “Using autogrow and autoshrink on tempdb”, Reviewnet Author Newsletter Question / Article on SQL Server Administration, March 2003

• “Understanding Join vs. Union”, Reviewnet Author Newsletter Question / Article on SQL Server Administration, February 2003

• “Views and Performance”, Reviewnet Author Newsletter Question / Article on SQL Server Administration, December 2002

• “Recommended Backup Frequencies”, Reviewnet Author Newsletter Question / Article on SQL Server Administration, October 2002

• “Clustered vs. Nonclustered Indexes”, Reviewnet Author Newsletter Question / Article on SQL Server Administration, August 2002

• “Mining Sybase Metadata,” The Embarcadero, Issue #3, September, 1999

• “Lock Configuration for Sybase System 11,” Sybase Developer’s Journal, April 1997

• “Preventive Maintenance for Sybase System 11,” 2-part article, Sybase Magazine, 1997

• Columnist, Client / Server, DM Review, 1994-1996 (Monthly), management issues in Client / Server environments.

• “Tools for Very Large Sybase Databases,” PowerBuilder Developer’s Journal, Sybase Corner, November 1995.

• “The Client Server Trend,” European Business Report, Spring 1995 (German magazine published in English).

• “VLDB Design Issues in a Sybase Environment,” SQL Forum Journal, March / April 1994.

• “Care and Feeding of the Sybase Production Server, a Preventive Maintenance Regimen” SQL Forum Journal, September / October 1993.

• “Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Common Performance and Tuning Gaffes in the Sybase Pilot Application,” SQL Forum Journal, July / August 1993.

• “Rightsizing the Mainframe Application,” Boxes and Arrows Magazine, January 1994.

• “Bring out Your Dead,” a treatise on managing technology changes among DP Professionals, Boxes and Arrows magazine, March 1993.

• “Implementing the Cooperative Processing Application,” Boxes and Arrows magazine, January 1991.

• “Cooperative Processing in the IDMS Environment,” a series of three articles appearing in the June, July, and August 1990 issues of Boxes and Arrows magazine.

White Papers

• “Using a Tricord Lunar Flare Device as an Oracle Appliance,” Tricord, November 2001.

• “Using a Tricord Lunar Flare Device as a Database Device For Microsoft SQL Server,” Tricord, September 2001.

• “Using Solid State Accelerators in the Financial Services Industry,” Imperial Technology, May 2001.

• “MS SQL Server and Solid State Accelerators,” Imperial Technology, April 2001.

Presentations

• “How to Migrate to ASE 15 – “Tips and Tricks”, April 22, 2010, ISUG and mLogica Monthly Webcast

• “Single Table Optimization – “Tips and Tricks”, May 18, 2010, ISUG and mLogica Monthly Webcast

• “Improving I/O Performance,” February 2003, 7th Annual HP Performance Training Seminar, Clearwater, FL

• “Preventive Maintenance for MS SQL Server 7.0,” Compass 2000 European Conference, London, England, alternate; September 1999, Compass99, Chicago, IL, alternate.

• “A Preventive Maintenance Regimen for Sybase Adaptive Server 11.9.2,” August 1999, Sybase TechWave, Orlando, FL.

• “Architecting a SQL Server-Based Business Rules Engine,” December 1998, Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) meeting, Tampa, FL.

• “Managing Massive Amounts of Data in a Sybase Data Warehouse,” 1998 International Sybase User Group, Washington, DC.

• “Managing Massive Amounts of Data in a Sybase Data Warehouse,” “Planning Long-Running Maintenance Tasks in a VLDB / Data Warehouse Environment,” “Architecting the Sybase / PB Rules Repository and Engine,” 1997 International Sybase User Group European Conference, Vienna, Austria, accepted for presentation.

• “VLDB Implications of Sybase System 11,” Sybase International Users' Group, Industry Focus Presentation, San Diego, CA May 1996; Tucson, April 1996; Atlanta, May 1996.

• “Managing Distributed Databases,” Managing the network, MIS Training Conference, Cambridge, MA, December 1995. (Presentation accepted and prepared, conference canceled!)

• “Implementing Very Large Databases,” full day, Microsoft internal development conference, New Orleans, April 1995.

• “Sybase Customers and VLDB,” Sybase marketing video, released Q3 1994.

• "Designing and Administering Very Large Databases," Sybase User's Conference, San Jose, May 1994, double presentation.  Repeat presentations for Albany, NY Sybase User Group (10/94); Boston, MA Sybase User Group (6/95).

• “Cooperative Processing Alternatives for the Mainframe Shop,” Information User Association (IUA ‘92), Dallas, TX April 1992.

• “Cooperative Processing in the IDMS Environment,” Northeast IDMS Technical Exchange Group, Dedham, MA, May 1991.

• “Pitfalls of Distributed and Cooperative Processes,” Client/Server Architecture for the Online Enterprise, Albany, NY, November 1990.

• “Cooperative Processing,” Polaris Professional Development Conference, Gananoque, Canada, October 1990.

• “The Server Side of Client/Server Architectures,” INFO ‘90, New York, NY, October 1990.

• “Cooperative Processing in the IDMS Environment,” Capital District IDMS User Association, Albany, NY, June 1990.

Referenced Articles

• “Trio of Buffer Overflows in Sybase,” SECURITY WIRE DIGEST, VOL. 4, NO. 90, DECEMBER 5, 2002, quoted on Sybase security issues.

• “Corporations Focus on Very Large Databases,” Sybase Magazine, Q1 1995, heavily quoted on VLDB definition, administration and tuning issues.

Robert McCord, Ph.D. – With a career characterized by innovation and initiative, Dr. McCord brings a deep level of expertise in analytics, business intelligence and relational database management to mLogica. Prior to mLogica he managed his own consulting business focusing on technologies for web services, databases and security.

• MOUG Fall Conference 2009 – Dr. Robert McCord, mLogica’s Chief Architect / CIO, address the NWOUG Fall Conference attendees regarding “The Great Leap Forward in Business Intelligence” on October 23, 2009 at 2:15pm.

• NWOUG Fall Conference 2009 – Dr. Robert McCord, mLogica’s Chief Architect / CIO, address the NWOUG Fall Conference attendees regarding “The Great Leap Forward in Business Intelligence” on September 15, 2009 at 2:00pm.

• Join mLogica at the NCOAUG Training Day, August 21, 2009 at the Drury Lane Theater & Conference Center, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

• ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 – Dr. Robert McCord, mLogica’s Chief Architect / CIO, address the ODTUG’s Kaleidoscope 2009 attendees regarding “The Great Leap Forward in Business Intelligence” on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 2:15pm.

Victor Alvarez – Software specialist with proven skills in database and data warehouse administration, quality assurance, tools development and problem determination.

• Alvarez, V.M., (2004), “.NET and DB2 UDB”, .NET Developer’s Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 9 pp. 32-34.

• Alvarez, V.M., (2004), “Stinger takes flight.”, DB2 Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 48-51.

• Alvarez, V.M., (2003), “Plugging into Faster Data Access”, DB2 Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 54-57.

• Alvarez V.M. et al. (1996), “IDEA: A Java-based Interdisciplinary Engineering Advisor Tool”, Nortel Design Forum, Paper 29.