Over the past decade, IBM has kept up a nearly constant barrage of announcements about business intelligence (BI) and analytics software and services. Ironically, considering the topic, the frequency and variety of these announcements has created a serious case of information overload for many IBM c

(Luke Numrych) Any DBAs faced with having to administer and maintain a large number of instances and databases will quickly find themselves swamped with work unless they learn to script most of their workload.

(Willie Favero) We are definitely turning into polling maniacs here at “Willie’s blog”. And yup, I have another poll for you.

Over the past decade, IBM has kept up a nearly constant barrage of announcements about business intelligence (BI) and analytics software and services. Ironically, considering the topic, the frequency and variety of these announcements has created a serious case of information overload for many IBM c

(Luke Numrych) Any DBAs faced with having to administer and maintain a large number of instances and databases will quickly find themselves swamped with work unless they learn to script most of their workload.

(Willie Favero) We are definitely turning into polling maniacs here at “Willie’s blog”. And yup, I have another poll for you.

(Craig S. Mullins) This tip is excerpted from my book Database administration: The complete guide to DBA practices and procedures.

(Troy L Coleman) While “autonomic computing” may sound like a futuristic term, it’s been around awhile — at least as it relates to DB2. IBM has supported autonomic function in DB2 for z/OS since the release of Version 9 in 2007.

(Dennis Sosnoski) Actor applications require a different style of programming from the linear approach used for single-threaded applications. Go deeper into structuring systems in terms of actors and messages from Scala code, using the Akka toolkit and runtime.

(Craig S. Mullins) This tip is excerpted from my book Database administration: The complete guide to DBA practices and procedures.