(Robert Catterall) How do you determine whether to use a materialized query table (MQT) using DB2 Cube Views or DB2 OLAP Server for a particular analytic need?

(Clint Boulton) IBM is looking to help automobile manufacturers and mechanics improve the way they pinpoint problems in vehicles with a new diagnostics service.

(Paolo Bruni, Doracilio Fernandes de Farias Jr, Yoshio Ishii, Michael Parbs, Mary Petras, Tsumugi Taira and Jan Vandensande) IBM DATABASE 2 Universal Database Server for z/OS Version 8 is the twelfth and largest release of DB2 for MVS. It brings synergy with the zSeries hardware and exploits the z/O

(Knut Stolze) Integrate the latest image-processing capabilities with your images stored in IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB). This article shows you a method for integrating a third-party image processing library such as ImageMagick with DB2 UDB to provide enhanced functionality to manage an

(Alfred Kueppers) International Business Machines and SAP AG have intensified their cooperation in database software compatibility recently as competition with rival Oracle intensifies, the Financial Times Deutschland reported.

IBM released a TPC-C result running DB2 Universal Database v8.2 that establishes records for both performance and price/performance on 4-way x86-64 hardware.

(David Budreau) See how easy it is to connect Macromedia Coldfusion to IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) and create powerful Web applications with limited skills in DB2, Coldfusion, and HTML. Step through a basic Web application built with Coldfusion and DB2. Learn about setting up DB2 and Coldfusion

(Samuel Poon) In Version 8.2, IBM DB2 Universal Database introduced a new tool for monitoring and administrating DB2 databases and instances called db2pd. Use this tool to keep track of transactions, tablespaces, table statistics, dynamic SQL, and all your configuration settings. It’s handy for trou

(Nagraj Alur, Rich Briddell, Donna Kelsey and Naoko Takaya) This IBM Redbook provides an overview of WebSphere Information Integrator Q replication, and provides guidelines for exploiting its high throughput, low latency, and other capabilities in the design and implementation of high-availability a

(Kim Moutsos) “The room we worked in was like a Western Union office. We’d get orders coming in from all over the place, and the machines would just be humming. It was like a telegraph room, except the messages were coming in from really exotic places like Kansas City, and for really exotic things l