(James Dey) The purpose of this guide is to provide a quick reference to relate DB2 and Oracle terminology. The architecture of these 2 database management systems is remarkably similar. (doc)

You can create and use UDFs in Java just as you would in other languages, with only a few minor differences when compared to C UDFs. After you code the UDF, you register it with the database. You can then refer to it in your applications.

(Priti Desai and Shaji Chandrashekhar) Time to scale up your database environment? This article provides a straightforward example of an actual migration of a database from IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 to DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 with the Database

(Kent Milligan) Within SQL, I need to select records based upon numerous criteria, but the one criteria that is leaving me scratching my head is select a record is a 9 byte alphanumeric field is strictly numeric (000000000 through 999999999). Using a range of ‘000000000’ through ‘999999999’ does NOT

(Jim Wagner) IBM is taking its emerging technologies to school with a new program aimed at academic institutions, internetnews.com has learned.

(Ed Scannell) IBM and Zend made good on their promise made this past February to jointly deliver Zend Core for IBM, an integrated solution to developers deploy data base applications and services using the Web-based PHP language.

Presented by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), IDUG 2005 – Europe is the premier European DB2 education event. Whether you are new to DB2 or have used it for some time, IDUG is the place to be next October in Europe to gain valuable information and proven user experiences on how to get the m

(Chris Eaton) I spent last week on vacation working on renovating my kitchen. Now my kitchen is completely empty (no sink, no stove, and no cabinets) and I’m at the point where I wish I had a spare kitchen (and I’ve still got 5 weeks to go). So when I thought about my blog, the first thing that popp

Before migrating from a DB2 Everyplace version 8.1.4 standalone installation to a WebSphere Everyplace Access (WEA) 5.0 installation, make sure to do the following: Synchronize all client devices to the DB2 Everyplace version 8.1.4 server. Stop all DB2 Everyplace version 8.1.4 Sync Server and

(Kim Moutsos) When Thomas Gregg landed in the human resources department at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 1997, he faced a thicket of homegrown solutions. It’s a familiar story: Applications that originally had been designed to serve isolated departments or projects had grown into