(John Breeden II) It’s pretty neat to think of a computer or a server healing itself, and that is exactly what IBM is going for across its product line. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database 8.2 incorporates some of these self-awareness features, which puts it ahead of most other databases in this category.

IBM introduced a new software solution designed to usher in a new age of automated electronic records management, helping customers address compliance requirements and manage risk across disparate silos of unmanaged content, accelerating their move to an on demand business.

(Wei-Dong Zhu, Monti Abrahams, Doris Ming Ming Ngai, Sandi Pond, Hernan Schiavi and Vanessa Stonesifer)This IBM Redbook will help you to understand backup, recovery, high availability, and business continuity strategies and options available for IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand. (pdf)

BMC Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise management solutions, introduced a solution for managing and tuning every aspect of the DB2 Universal Database (UDB). With the introduction of SmartDBA Performance Solution for DB2 UDB version 3.0, BMC Software said it is making it possible for Unix, Linu

In the previous chapter we learned how to use SQL’s data definition language (DDL) to create SQL base tables that contain data and SQL views that provide alternative ways to access data in base tables. In this chapter we begin our study of SQL’s data manipulation language (DML), which provides data

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) The Version 8.2.2 update of the IBM DB2 Universal Database product (DB2 UDB) includes a new capability that allows database administrators (DBAs) to use a single page size for their entire database.

(Lee Kroon) Two weeks ago, IBM put the software industry on notice that prices for its middleware offerings will reflect the virtual IT infrastructures upon which they run. The company announced that it will offer sub-capacity software licenses not only for many of its own servers, but also for

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) While IBM has shied away from testing the new eServer i5 Power5-based servers on the more common TPC-C online transaction processing or the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) ERP benchmark test, the company knows that i5 buyers want to see something that allows them to compare

(Marina Greenstein) If you’re migrating to IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) from a database that supports bit and Boolean operations and functions, you may be wondering how to handle these types and functions in DB2. The author offers a method that includes table creation with columns of the bit-lik

(Kent Milligan) We have some tables created by SQL in a development box. How can we move these tables with data into another box (Production)? (R)