(Mark Gillis) The previous blog (http://db2geek.triton.co.uk/pivoting-unpivoting-data-purexml ) was looking at how to ‘unpivot’ data: take a string of values stored in a single VARCHAR column and present them as a set of single values.

(David Kwock, Rahul Gupta and Vasfi Gucer) Hybrid Cloud is the integration of multiple clouds that are aligned to the unique characteristics of the different system types. IBM defines hybrid cloud as the secure use of services from two or more sources, including the private cloud, public cloud, or t

(Daniel Luksetich) DB2 comes with a wide variety of built-in functions that enable some incredible functionality within the context of SQL statements. These functions allow for developers to very quickly incorporate application functionality inside SQL statements for fast deployment of features and

(Troy L Coleman) The client application correlation token is another helpful tool delivered with DB2 11. But before getting into the details, let’s briefly recount at the history of the correlation-id, or CORR-ID.

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications typically involve:

(Willie Favero) COBOL has been around for more than 50 years now. According to 1997 report by the Gartner Group, it was estimated that at that point in time, there were a total of 200 billion lines of COBOL in existence running about 80% of all business programs.

(Julian) So, Day 3 of this year’s IDUG Europe is in the books, and as usual it’s been a busy one. After all of the frantic activity leading up to Monday’s Triton/DBI party, last night the DB2 Geeks stepped it down a notch and visited the excellent F.X. Buckley restaurant for our traditional Tuesday

(Srinivas Cheemalapati, Yi-an Chang, Shahir Daya, Matthieu Debeaux, Odilon Magroski Goulart, Vasfi Gucer, Rahul Gupta, Shamim Hossain, David Kwock, Jordan T Moore, David N Nguyen and Bobby Woolf) IBM Hybrid Integration Services is a set of hybrid cloud capabilities in IBM Bluemix that allows busines

(Dave Beulke) The latest release of the IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop is really taking off because of its great Hadoop SQL functionality, its SQL performance, and standard security model.

(Mark Gillis) I always enjoy a chat with the locals when we have an IDUG event so I spent the 30 minute taxi journey from the airport to the hotel in conversation with my driver. I think I actually understood about 3 words.