(Pavan Kristipati) Merriam Webster Dictionary defines ‘Sample’ as “a small amount of something that is given to people to try” and that is exactly what the SAMPLE database that is shipped along with every IBM’s DB2 LUW installation is.

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications and their associated proprietary, high-performance data stores arrived on the scene a few years ago. With promises of incredibly fast queries, many IT shops implemented one or more of these combination hardware and software suites.

(Raffaele Stifani) This IBM Redpaper publication gives readers a broad understanding of IBM Bluemix cloud application development platform capabilities. Providing a platform as a service (PaaS) environment as one of its run times, along with containers and virtual machines, Bluemix uses the Cloud Fo

(Pavan Kristipati) Merriam Webster Dictionary defines ‘Sample’ as “a small amount of something that is given to people to try” and that is exactly what the SAMPLE database that is shipped along with every IBM’s DB2 LUW installation is.

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications and their associated proprietary, high-performance data stores arrived on the scene a few years ago. With promises of incredibly fast queries, many IT shops implemented one or more of these combination hardware and software suites.

(Raffaele Stifani) This IBM Redpaper publication gives readers a broad understanding of IBM Bluemix cloud application development platform capabilities. Providing a platform as a service (PaaS) environment as one of its run times, along with containers and virtual machines, Bluemix uses the Cloud Fo

(Enzo Cialini and George Baklarz) How can there be a DB2 perspective for the Oracle DBA? There is almost nothing more sacred than a DBA’s loyalty to their database of choice, so why would you consider one DBMS over another (and trust us, the debates get heated over this)?

(Craig. S. Mullins) In this 7th, and final installment of this series on influencing the DB2 optimizer’s access path choices, we will take a look at a couple of additional things to consider as you work toward improving your SQL performance.

(Dave Beulke) The next part of this DB2 Family Security Best Practices blog series talks about developing a unique corporate security. This security is unique within your organization and unique within your applications.

(Enzo Cialini and George Baklarz) How can there be a DB2 perspective for the Oracle DBA? There is almost nothing more sacred than a DBA’s loyalty to their database of choice, so why would you consider one DBMS over another (and trust us, the debates get heated over this)?