(Roman Kharkovski) A couple of years ago I wrote an app that runs on the Google App Engine (GAE). This month I had to add a couple of new features to the app and decided to port it to the IBM BlueMix.
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Accelerate Query Workloads to Streamline Business Operations
(Cuneyt Goksu) Business environments today depend on rapid analysis of data in their extensive repositories to meet strategic objectives and remain ahead of the competition. As a result, the key to survival for many organizations is the capability to leverage information rapidly and be responsive to
Why so slow? IBM Bluemix is the express lane for mobile app development
(Gang Chen) IBM Bluemix provides quick setup for slick mobile development.
Reference Architecture: System x Solution for IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration on X6
(Shang-Min (Allen) Wei, Jon Lind, Jessica Rockwood, Rahul Agarwal, Doug Petteway and Ajay Dholakia) Enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) store data that is used primarily for business intelligence, analytics, and other reporting requirements. Today’s business analytics demands higher performance from d
Analyzing Historical Performance Data – Important Reports
(Lockwood Lyon) Often the DBA must react to production performance problems. The DBA should have a good working knowledge of the following:
A Data Quality Initiative
(Craig S. Mullins) As regular readers of this blog know, I sometimes share answers to questions I get via e-mail (and other avenues). By doing so I can hopefully expand on the audience participating in the discussion…
Build a DB2 CLI console to manage SQLDB databases
(Felix Fong) Manage your SQLDB databases with ease, using an application you can quickly build and deploy on the IBM cloud platform, Bluemix. The application illustrated in this tutorial lets you open a console in an app running on the IBM Bluemix cloud platform, and run familiar DB2 commands, such
4 Reasons to Consolidate Databases to DB2 LUW
(Dave Beulke) As year-end budgets get finalized, and 2015 is planned out, you might want to reconsider your plans and look to consolidate any other database vendors into DB2 LUW.
Six Reasons to Love DBI Software’s pureFeat V6.1 Performance Management Suite
(laura) Our partners at DBI software have recently announced the release of the pureFeat V6.1 Performance Suite for IBM DB2 LUW. This tool makes it faster and easier than ever to fight the right fires fast. We think there are six top features which makes this the DB2 LUW tool to love:
An Extra DBA Rule of Thumb
(Craig S. Mullins) Last year on the blog I posted a series of 12 DBA Rules of Thumb. As a quick reminder, these Rules of Thumb – or ROTS, are some general rules of the road that apply to the management discipline of Database Administration that I have collected over the years. These ROTs are broadly
