By John G. Spooner – IBM’s newest eServer, an Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron machine, will debut as part of a new computing cluster that will rank among the top ten high-performing computers in the world.

IBM announced new Linux database clusters to help businesses of any size implement a low cost, high performance data center based on IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the IBM eServer 325 systems that IBM is also introducing this week.

By Robyn Weisman – Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM’s DB2 and Oracle’s 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle, with their combined 70 percent market share, are not the only RDBMS vendors in the database race.

By Naveen Balani – This article explains how to display DB2 UDB search results in chunks of pages, using either through the rownext() feature provided in the product, or a Java stateful bean or HttpSession. It also details the pros and cons of each method.

IBM plans to release next year a software tool that will improve DB2 Content Manager’s ability to manage the many different XML documents used by enterprises. Code-named “Cinnamon,” the utility will be integrated with the administrative tools for Content Manager’s repository. The new tool wil

By Dirk Johann and Ralf Neumann – The prerequisite to implementing quality assurance measures is in recognizing and measuring relevant SQL changes in DB2 applications. This white paper introduces manual methods that can be used to determine such changes, and presents in addition a tool-supported sol

By Gareth Morgan – The cost of running high-end databases, and how they cope with external data sources, is becoming a key issue for vendors as the leading players attempt to fight off open source rivals.

By Ken North – Sometimes SQL and XML documents get along just fine. Sometimes they don’t. A new query language is getting everything talking again.

By Robert Westervelt – Jeff Jones, IBM’s director of strategy for data management solutions, spoke recently with SearchDatabase.com about Big Blue’s Linux strategy for its DB2 customers. Jones refused to comment on SCO Group’s complaint that IBM, as part of its Linux strategy, illegally distributed

By Torsten Steinbach – After describing how recursive SQL works and what kinds of problems it solves, the author explains how to solve a problem that may occur when you migrate applications that use recursive SQL from Oracle to DB2 UDB.