1. Report on the Database Workshop

2. Organizational Information A workshop on database design for EPICS- and CDEV-based control systems September 6-8, at Jefferson Laboratory Labs attending: BESSY, LANL, ORNL, JLAB, PSI, BNL

3. EPICS IOC Databases Database generations: two flavors Templates outside the database, substitution parameters inside –Not all data is available from the database All records and fields in the database –How to keep graphical information/DB links?

4. Other Database Uses Managing machine optics Managing save/restore, archiver, and alarm handler files…and integrating with IOC database management Application management

5. Other Database Issues Human resources--form design:database design ratio is 3:1 up to 5:1 Web-based Java tools seem to be the direction that user-interfaces are going