(David Beulke) Regulatory requirements such as the United States’ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are causing extensive changes within corporations. Some of the changes alter database system fundamentals; all of them require data management

This tutorial shows you how to successfully create two tables and an index using the IBM DB2 Development Add-In for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. You can use the IBM Explorer to view a sample of the contents of the table. The IBM Explorer automatically queries the number of rows that the user specif

(Paul C. Zikopoulos and Roman B. Melnyk) This article is the first in a series that will introduce some of the new key features in DB2 UDB “Stinger,” with “work-through” examples that you can use with the open beta today. In this article, we will cover some of the new options available to programmer

(Therese Sroujian) In this sixth article in the series about managing content in an employee workplace, the author describes how the team designed and implemented a sample Web portal application to support the task processing of the Document management scenario Analyst research reporting. The scenar

(Antone Gonsalves) New license revenue in the global relational database market increased by 5.1 percent last year, as IBM’s DB2 database surpassed Oracle for the first time, a market research firm reports.

IBM continues to deliver record breaking performance results with the publication of a new TPC-H benchmark at the 300GB scale factor. DB2 Universal Database v8.1 running on an IBM eServer xSeries 365 set a new record for 4-way performance running the 300GB TPC-H benchmark. DB2 UDB and the x365 achie

(John Maenpaa) This will be an introduction to the tools available to analyze the performance of DB2 applications running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms. We’ll focus on practical methods and tools that are readily available for these platforms. Platform-specific tools will be covered firs

(Bonnie Baker) When we finished Part 1, we had done a PRECOMPILE to separate our COBOL program source code into twins. Twin 1 was Arnold (oops, Governor Arnold now), the modified source code (the SQL now commented out and DCLGENs now INCLUDEd). Twin 2 was Danny, the DBRM containing the SQL that

(Jim Wankowski) The days of managing databases on one platform have long gone. Although your manager may presume that managing DB2 on OS/390 is pretty much the same as on Unix or Windows, you know better. It is, however, possible to leverage your DB2 knowledge to make the leap to another platform.

(Robert Westervelt) The relational database software market grew by 5% last year, and IBM held onto its lead for the third consecutive year, according to a Gartner Inc. study released recently. (R)