(Pavan Kristipati) In this blog post, I will quickly cover my recent experience in troubleshooting a DB2/LDAP authentication problem in a DB2 DPF database.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! During today’s show, Iqbal gave us an excellent presentation on his early user experiences with IBM BLU CANCUN (aka 10.5.0.4) Shadow Tables and pureScale “Lite”.

(Hendrik van Run and Jonathan Deberdt) When implementing IBM PureApplication System, IBM recommends integration with an external LDAP subsystem. Many clients have an additional requirement for the OS to integrate with an external LDAP, which is not provided out-of-the-box.

Norberto Gasparotto Filho is a database specialist with more than 10 years of experience with database administration and is the author of the DB2 10.1 fundamentals certification exam 610 prep, Part 1: Planning.

(Craig S. Mullins) In our last blog post here, we covered DB2 system performance management tools – that is, tools that look at the performance at a system or subsystem level. Today, we turn our attention to the database objects…

We all know that IBM DB2 database software is an industry leader when it comes to performance, scale, and reliability. But how does it compare to the competition, specifically Oracle and SAPHANA?

(Dave Beulke) Data from personal health monitors, airplane/car mechanical sensors, location movement instrumentation, image processes, and voice prints audio analysis are exploding databases in all aspects of business.

(Jeff Berger and Lee LaFrese) The tight integration that DB2 for z/OS has with the System z architecture and the z/OS environment creates a synergy that allows DB2 to exploit advanced z/OS platform functions.

(Susan Visser) The long awaited latest book from Roger Sanders has now been published!

(Ember Crooks) I’ve been working with a developer to profile some SQL from a process he’s running. He has no insight into the SQL that the tool is using, primarily to insert data. I thought I’d share some of the details. I still think of this kind of event monitor as a “Statement Event Monitor”.