Computer Associates International, Inc. named RBC Financial Group as this year’s winner of the North American Award for Innovation with DB2. The award was presented at the International DB2 User Group Conference in Denver, CO.

(Kent Milligan) We have a Oracle V8i sitting on a Sun Solaris Server. We have another DB2 database on iSeries (version V5R3M0). Our aim is to extract data from the Oracle database every 30 minutes (it will not be a straight pull but will involve massaging the data) and loading onto DB2/400. At the m

IBM has set a new standard for database performance with the announcement of a record-shattering 3 Terabyte (TB) TPC-H benchmark on Linux using the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment. IBM delivered this result at a price point that is almost three times lower than any other system in the same sc

This utility aids the deployment of DB2 Cube Views by helping the customer/Database Administrator (DBA) to identify and resolve Referential Integrity nonconformance in their data warehouse implementation. Successful DB2 Cube Views deployments require a data warehouse relational schema that has a min

(Greg Crawley) DBAs are always looking for quick and easy ways to move tables into new tablespaces. Sometimes table moves are necessary because tables are getting too big; sometimes because grouping a set of tables in a particular tablespace will improve performance. SAP DBAs face a particular chall

(Steve Lohr) International Business Machines is introducing software today that is intended to let companies share and compare information with other companies or government agencies without identifying the people connected to it.

IBM and Oracle tied last year for No. 1 in worldwide new license sales for relational database management systems, as the total market rose more than 10 percent to $7.8 billion, a market research firm said.

(Bob Gibson) There are times, and reasons for manipulating Derby relational databases in a language other than Java. If you are interested in using a flexible interpreted language such as Python, then this article can help you get everything set up properly.

(Eric Long) This demo covers the installation of Cloudscape and the IBM DB2/Cloudscape plugin. Users will also learn how to connect to a sample Cloudscape database in Eclipse.

(Barbara Darrow) Could IBM’s Viper be the database world’s holy grail? For years, the big database vendors have said that their relational offerings also support unstructured XML data. And so they do. Kind of.