By Kimberly Hill – Enterprises have suffered much in their quest for the elusive “single view of the customer.” Combining all sources of customer information into a single repository has proven painful in some instances and disastrous in others.

By Barbara Darrow – IBM this week plans to formally unveil an Express version of its DB2 database that’s tailored for midmarket customers and their supporting partners.

By Barbara Darrow – IBM DB2 Express will be priced as aggressively as some expected. The database, which will cost $499 per server plus $99 per named user, takes aim at small and midsize businesses and is available now, IBM said.

JDBC and SQLJ are used to access databases in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces SQLJ and JDBC and covers some of the ways to take advantage of the features of SQLJ when accessing DB2 to achieve the best overall performance in your Java programs.

This tutorial introduces skills you must have to properly manage a DB2 server. This is the first tutorial in a series of six that you can use to help prepare for the DB2 V8.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration Certification (Exam 701).

By Dennis Callaghan – IBM has developed a metadata product that will help enterprises that use a variety of third-party reporting tools access data from its DB2 database.

By Ed Scannell – To enhance the analytical capabilities of DB2, IBM on Monday rolled out software that better prepares and shares complex information for analysis by third party business intelligence applications. Called Cube Views, formerly code named Aurora, the new software reportedly uses

DB2 XML Extender provides new data types to store XML documents in DB2 databases and new functions to work with these structured documents. Managed by DB2, these documents are stored as character data or external files. Retrieval functions enable you to retrieve complete documents or individu

Expand Beyond Corp. announced the latest release of PocketDBA(TM) mobile software for database administration, which supports Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 UDB databases. With PocketDBA, organizations can control any number of the world’s top three databases from a single wireless console, be it laptop

By Ellen O’Brien – Stephen Pace was a DBA who crossed the line — to sales, that is. The Houston-based sales consultant worked as a C++ developer and a DBA for Shell Oil, the company that developed a warehousing project called Kalido to meet the demands of an enterprise with 85 operational un