(Lim Sham Sham and Tan Eng Kian) For independent software vendors (ISVs) and their customers, there is more to a solution than just the application. A complete solution includes an application, but it’s an application that is integrated with the middleware components that enable the application to w

(Chris Eaton) As you may be aware, DB2 has supported multiple page sizes within the same database for years. As well DB2 supports up to 4096 buffer pools where each buffer pool can be of any valid page size (4k, 8k, 16k or 32k). This is in contrast to other vendors that only allow one buffer pool pe

(Dan Scott) It is perhaps a sad reflection on my life that I’m using a personal blog to offer technical information about a product that I work on, rather than telling you about what I ate last night (spinach and goat cheese salad with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, quinoa, and a rather tomatoey

(Joe Pluta) It’s that time of the year: New Year’s resolutions are made and thoughts of change swirl through our minds (although for those of us with little ones, change is more likely changing diapers, but I digress).

(Mark Whitehorn) DB2 is the most respectable and most powerful database engine in the world: it’s the pinnacle of database development. IBM makes a claim (undisputed to my knowledge) that more structured data is stored in DB2 than in any other database engine.

(Vincent McBurney) I compare the data integration offerings of Microsft, with the release of SQL Server 2005, and IBM with the Ascential products. With major releases from both companies 2006 is shaping up as a data integration slugfest.

(John Bergland, Marilyn Flax, Michael Fromin, Amier Jordan, Sabine Nagl, Thomas Radigewski, Theresa Smit and Oliver Trabert) IBM Workplace Web Content Management is a powerful and sophisticated Web content management product that is designed to accelerate development and delivery of critical busines

IDUG 2006 – North America will take place May 7-11, 2006 in Tampa, Florida. Once again, this premier user run educational forum for database users across all platforms, not only provides you with essential information needed for success, but addresses critical timely, topics of interest as determine

(Jim Cook) Mid-market companies are looking for complete solutions from solution providers who know their businesses and specialize in a particular solution category, such as warehouse management or supply chain integration, within their industry. (pdf)

(Chris Eaton) In this series of blog postings on DB2 Optimized for SAP, I thought I should start right at the beginning which for most people is the installation step. In most cases the person performing the installation of the SAP application probably has no idea what would be the right answers to