(Craig S. Mullins) Ensuring access to proper DB2 educational materials should be one of the first issues to be addressed after your organization decides to implement DB2. But education sometimes falls through the cracks…

(Dino Quintero, Esteban Arias Navarro, Pablo Barquero Garro, Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro, Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas, Peng Jiang, Franz Friedrich Liebinger Portela, Peter McCullagh, Ichsan Mulia Permata, Joanna Wong and John Wright) This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates and documents how to

(Jack Vamvas) Question: What is a leap second and how will it impact my DB2 servers ? I have a bunch of DB2 servers hosted on Red Hat Linux 6.

(Dipak K. Pal) This four-part tutorial series describes a Salesforce federated single sign-on solution using WebSphere DataPower as an identity provider. Part 3 discusses how to implement the service provider initiated single sign-on to Salesforce using a signed SAML assertion.

(Henrik Loeser) It is almost four years since I wrote about my exciting tests with a DB2 pureScale demo cluster (see picture). At that time the pureScale feature was still fairly new and was supported on a limited choice of hardware/software.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Dave shared a wealth of SQL tuning tips aimed at very large DW environments. A must-see!

(John Donaldson) I’ve been at IBM for several years, all in the software business, and have seen some very interesting campaigns designed to tell the world about capabilities.

(Troy L Coleman) While posting about the new z13 IBM Redbook last week, I discussed some of the hottest topics in the technology marketplace. It’s a certainty that more and more devices will continue to drive up data storage on z Systems.

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) Instead of starting by explaining how to build an SQL database from the ground up, let’s start by discussing the things that you can use to query and change data in your DDS-defined physical files: a set of SQL instructions used to manipulate data, commonly referred to as t

(Dave Beulke) Below is Part 2 of the Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices. All the DB2 security-minded DBAs and system administrators should verify their DB2 security configuration along with their DB2 security authority definitions as soon as possible.