(Ember Crooks) It may be something that’s not terribly common to have to do, but that makes it all the more important that we document how to do it. Dropping a schema and all of the objects in that schema used to be tedious and time-consuming.

(Dave Beulke) I continue to be amazed by high ranking executives, directors, managers and team leads that have only a minimal understanding of data management fundamentals and principles.

(Aaron Bartell) In the January 2016 article “Riding the Rails, Part 1,” I introduced you to how a Rails project is created. In the February 2016 article “Riding the Rails, Part 2,” we generated a Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) application.

(Troy L Coleman) When DB2 was first released, a distributed application would open a cursor and fetch a single row of data. This fetch request would go to DB2, then DB2 would return one row to the application.

(Craig S. Mullins) “It depends” is probably the most famous phrase out there when it comes to DB2 performance. Some call it the cardinal rule. You can answer just about any question that anybody asks at any time with it. Try it out. It depends!

(Jim Bainbridge, Hernando Bedoya, Rob Bestgen, Mike Cain, Dan Cruikshank, Jim Denton, Doug Mack, Tom McKinley and Simona Pacchiarini) Structured Query Language (SQL) procedures, triggers, and functions, which are also known as user-defined functions (UDFs), are the key database features for developi

(Willie Favero) Today I have a z Systems update for you. Hank Meetze (Expert CTS – System z – Security IDS – zChampion @ IBM) published his 2nd Quarter 2016 edition of the “ z Systems Newsletter”.

(Scott) 87% of our audience learned something and 100% had a few good laughs! Terry Johnson, IDUG Chair, shared a great presentation about the IDUG conference that was packed with tips and advice, and we announced our DB2’s GOT TALENT 2016 winners!

(Bharathi Manian and Thanmayi Mruthyunjaya) This article describes how to automate your project deployment by using the WebSphere Cast Iron Management API. This automation allows you to manage and monitor your Cast Iron appliances and orchestrations that go beyond what the Web management console and

(Henrik Loeser) IBM today announced a new experimental service for its Bluemix cloud platform that provides Data Sink capabilities to its users, helping companies to tackle data overload scenarios, enhancing data archiving throughput and solving data retention issues.