(Susan Cline) The latest release of IBM Cloudscape, Version 10.1, a commercial release of Apache Derby, is available for download at no charge. This article explains a few differences for this version of the release. It also helps you to select the proper installer version of IBM Cloudscape to downl

(Dwaine R. Snow) It is important to know if people are creating new tables, indexes, stored procedures, etc. in your production database. New objects typically indicate that a new application has been installed on the server and any new applications and/or objects will impact the operational charact

(Vinod Lamba and Jorge Rasillo) In today’s business information environment, managing heterogeneous and geographically distributed data sources is perhaps the most significant challenge in many enterprises. WebSphere Information Integrator, a strategic information integration framework, provides a p

(Dwaine R. Snow) Verify that all instances are up and running. This can be done in a number of ways: –Use Health Center –export/set DB2INSTANCE=instancename –and run db2start –Attach to all instances –On UNIX or Linux, run ps –ef | grep db2sysc –Verify there is one db2sysc process

(Paul Zikopoulos, George Baklarz and Dan Scott) Welcome to the Apache Derby and IBM Cloudscape family! We are glad to have you join our community of thousands, all dedicated to open standards and open source computing.

(Dirk deRoos, Gwyneth Evans, Grant Hutchison and Paul Zikopoulos) The field of application development is very broad and all-encompassing. While relational databases play a key role in most applications that need a persistent data store, they are not the driving force behind the development and sel

(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I talked about tablespaces in DB2 for LUW vs. DB2 for z/OS. I think it is worth spending a bit more time talking about extents in DB2 for LUW and how they can increase the I/O parallelism you can get out of DB2.

(Whei-Jen Chen, Priti Desai, Ujwala Devi, Sreeman Kancherla, Venkatram Menakuru, Raghu Ramaswamy, Scott Saunders and Arjun Sirohi) This IBM Redbook delivers details about DB2 UDB V8.2 on Siebel 7.8. It outlines the partnership between Siebel Systems and IBM and the benefits of using DB2 UDB to suppo

(Aaron Tan) Teo Wan Ping, IBM Singapore’s brand manager for information management, told ZDNet Asia that IBM could “potentially offer” a free starter edition of DB2, as part of the company’s strategy to win over developers to its database product.

(Dwaine R. Snow) Database tools / snapshots by themselves typically will not give you the complete picture of your system performance. For example, a database may be 100% optimally tuned, but will not be able to perform well if I/O contention is occurring on the server. Therefore it is important to