(Lockwood Lyon) Big Data today is different in many ways. We are now faced with new and complex data types (large objects, or LOBs), self-describing data (XML) and multi-structured data (images, audio, video, click-streams).

(Scott) No surprise! 100% of our audience learned something! Mohan and Kent did a great job introducing their new forthcoming DB2 Certification book, plus they taught various topics from the book!

(Ember Crooks) I wrote a developerWorks article on finding problem SQL in your package cache. But I refine and play with my SQL over time, so I thought I’d share the version I’ve been using recently.

(Saurabh Agrawal) Big data introduces data storage and system performance challenges. Keeping your growing tables small and efficient improves system performance as the smaller tables and indices are accessed faster; all other things being equal, a small database performs better than a large one.

(Susan Visser) Here’s another book I’m adding to my reading list:

(Dave Beulke) As some plan their vacations this year, others are planning their DB2 11 migrations. If you’re in the second category, begin by reading the DB2 migration documentation, and then look at the ten extra items below. These ten items might just help you avoid any issues or problems.

(Santiago Ortega and Bobby Woolf) Although largely self-contained, you still need to connect IBM PureApplication System to your data center network so that your external users can connect to, manage, and deploy workloads onto the system, as well as connect to those workloads and use applications run

(Abhik Roy) Workload Manager is a feature that comes with DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server and Advanced Workgroup Server editions that can classify database work into different buckets. One work bucket can get priority of execution and priority on CPU and memory resources, while another bucket of work

(Lockwood Lyon) Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards?

(Henrik Loeser) DB2 is really flexible in how it gets deployed. This includes platforms, resource usage, shared disk or database partitioning models, product names, and product features.