(Roman Kharkovski) At the end of 2016 I spent some time performance testing IBM MQ, Pivotal RabbitMQ and Apache ActiveMQ in a Docker environment.

(Scott) From time to time we’ve received feedback that finding content on The DB2Night Show™ is challenging. We’re going to let you in on a well kept secret – SEARCHING The DB2Night Show replays, and other DBI hosted blogs, is now EASY!

(Troy L Coleman) I was recently asked about activating a trace that sends information about DB2 11 index cleanup threads to the IBM System Management Facility (SMF).

(U. Siddiqui) As discussed in Part 1, tracing is disabled by default when you use the Business Rules service for IBM Bluemix.

(Scott) Again, 100% of our audience learned something! When you listen to our replay, take note of the millions of miles that George has flown around the world. While he’s on the airplanes, he writes books and develops really cool tools to help learn about DB2.

(David Shirey) About six months ago, I talked about the relatively new DB2 for i Service tool and why it was pretty nifty. Now, let’s take a closer look at it and see how you actually use it.

(Craig S. Mullins) Today’s blog post is a quick review of Fabian Pascal’s latest book The DBDEBUNK Guide to Misconceptions and Data Fundamentals. Those of you who know Pascal will know what to expect — a no-holds barred treatise on the fundamentals of data and database management focusing on the rel

(Joe Geller) Tuning of SQL queries requires understanding why DB2 chose a particular access path and determining whether or not that access path should perform as expected.

(Pradeep Muthalpuredathe) To make sense of the avalanche of data generated today, you will need to put the data to work. The more you do it, the better the outcome. But the cost of storing and managing the data on premise grows very fast along with growing infrastructure and operational cost.

(Bharath Devaraju, Shankar Kuchibhotla and Nisanth Simon) Big data analytics is network intensive because it runs on a cluster of nodes. Due to the high volumes of data exchanged between nodes in the IBM BigInsights cluster, network isolation is vital for the following reasons: