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SQL Slowing Down

I was talking with a colleague recently who uses a canned application to assist in his daily work. The application uses SQL Server, granting him a them a lot of opportunity to extend their understanding and mining of the data. The problem they are experiencing is that the database is slow, and continues to get slower as it accumulates more […]

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Are REORGs Still Necessary?

(Troy L Coleman) Several months ago I wrote about modern storage and the impact on DB2 performance. That post received two comments. The first recommended IBM’s Easy Tier technology, which is a tool that automatically migrates frequently accessed data from magnetic media to solid-state drives (SSDs)