(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 has five (well, four current) primary adjustable thresholds that can be modified using the ALTER BUFFERPOOL command.

(Roger Sanders) Big-endian and little-endian are terms that are used to describe the order in which a sequence of bytes are stored in computer memory, and if desired, are written to disk. (Interestingly, the terms come from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels where the Big Endians were a political f

(Lockwood Lyon) Despite the sophistication of the latest DB2 software versions and the power of current IBM z/server technology, it is still possible for performance and data availability to deteriorate due to a variety of things, including increased dataset extents, loss of clustering, index page s

(Troy L Coleman) Last year I noted that IBM was accelerating development of the DB2 Analytics Accelerator. With new maintenance releases coming out about every 3-6 months, it’s a challenge to keep up with all the changes. That’s why I was excited to discover the IBM developerWorks Community for DB2

(Supal Chowdhury, Subrata Saha and Subhrashis Ganguly)What if you had an app that delivered notifications from your doctor about your heart-rate and other health statistics?

(Henrik Loeser) When I want to learn more about the ins and outs of DB2 or dashDB or when I have some spare time and want some fun sharing my knowledge I visit Stack Overflow.

(Lockwood Lyon) Myth #2: The Only New Budget Items are Big Data Hardware and Software.

(Ori Pomerantz) OpenWhisk is a cloud-first distributed event-based programming service that is integrated with IBM Bluemix. OpenWhisk uses a serverless deployment and operations model that hides infrastructure complexity and lets you focus on the code you want to execute.

(Philip Nelson) IBM recently (April 12th 2016) announced the latest version of the DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. The worst kept secret in the world, that “vNext” would be V11.1, was finally out in the open. By the time this article is published the GA date should be just around the corner (the pl

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I’m making a change to DB2 LUW database table – and would like to first backup the table – before I make the change. What is a method for backing up a table and data?