(Dipak K. Pal) This four-part tutorial series describes a Salesforce federated single sign-on solution using WebSphere DataPower as an identity provider. Part 1 of this series discusses how to implement an identity provider initiated single sign-on to Salesforce using a signed SAML assertion.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! DB2 10.5 and its various fixpacks have introduced many new monitoring capabilities. During this show, David taught us what is new and how to use the new information. His presentation is loaded with great SQL examples too!

(Lockwood Lyon) Most appliances that claim to support a big data solution can hold extremely large amounts of data. One of the most common questions is how long will it take to load that data into the appliance?

(Mike Cain) I recently ran across a very insightful article By Bob Becker of the Kimball Group. If you have not heard of “Kimball”, as in Ralph Kimball, he is arguably one of the best known founding fathers of data warehousing and the data model known as “star schema”.

(Roman Kharkovski) On June 17 at 11 am (EST) IBM Middleware General Manager Marie Wieck will host the live chat with six IBM CTOs leading key areas of IBM Middleware portfolio.

(Craig S. Mullins) In our last post (DBA Excuses… and advice to programmers for overcoming them!) we examined some of the bigger excuses used by DBAs to avoid problems and work. But poor excuses are not the exclusive domain of the DBA; far from it!

(Lockwood Lyon) Most business data consumers fall in to one of three categories:

(Sreeharsha Naik) DB2 tables are meant to hold enormous amounts of data for application testing, development, and production purposes. But at times, the need arises to design the table to hold just one row at a time dynamically.

(Robley Hall) In IBM PureApplication Software on Microsoft Azure, administrators are responsible for tracking and reporting the use of IBM licensed products installed on deployed virtual machines.

(Ember Crooks) I was a bit shocked when I searched my own blog for entries on db2look and came up with nothing. While it’s not a complicated tool, db2look is an essential tool.