(Whei-Jen Chen, Rajeev Kamath, Alexander Kelly, Hector H. Diaz Lopez, Matthew Roberts and Yee Pin Yheng) Systems of record (SORs) are engines that generates value for your business. Systems of engagement (SOE) are always evolving and generating new customer-centric experiences and new opportunities

(Roman Kharkovski) Traffic shaping is the ability of the server to intelligently handle user requests according to the rule set defined by the system administrator, instead of having a system where every request is treated equal and is processed with the same priority.

(Troy L Coleman) During a recent DB2 user group meeting, a question came up about identifying applications that consume excessive amounts of DB2 DSNDB07 sort work. As the presenter, IBM’s Robert Catterall, noted, this capability is available in DB2 11 through some new system parameters.

(Raghavendra Chiyodu) An application’s poor performance is sometimes caused by a performance problem in a database. The way that the Structured Query Languages (SQLs) in the database are performing will give you a good indication of how the database is performing.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I extract the ddl for CREATE DATABASE ? It seems like you can extract the full range of database object DDLs, but I can’t extract the database ddl

(Lockwood Lyon) Management will see the knowledge and skills profiles of the DBA team shift over time as they deal with support of big data. Most of this shift will revolve around generalists and specialists.

(Jon Tate, Vadi Bhatt, Sanjeev Naldurgkar, Filip Van Den Neucker and Asher Pemberton) Dynamic organizations want to accelerate growth while reducing costs. To do so, they must speed the deployment of business applications and adapt quickly to any changes in priorities. Organizations today require an

(Pas Apicella) Not before time I finally added my first “Deploy to Bluemix” button on my GitHub projects for Bluemix applications. The screen shot below shows this for the Spring Session – Spring Boot Portable Cloud Ready HTTP Session demo.

(Scott) 96% of our audience learned something! During today’s show, Pavan shares his excellent IDUG presentation in which he details many of his tricks and techniques to make his DBA job easier and faster! Several examples are given and you can get his PDF!

(Philip Nelson) In the ideal development world, there would be unlimited computing resources available and creating development and testing environments would be an instantaneous and pain free process.