(Rachel Bland) Let’s take a look at my profile. Gen X-er. Young kid, busy job, work-life integrated. I will not answer your online surveys, I won’t even answer the phone unless I know who it is because if you really knew me you’d send a text. I don’t listen to voice mail – too disruptive.

(Lucas Sousa Lima, Thiago de Aguiar Leal Domingues and Vinicius Carneiro) In this tutorial, we show you how to develop an application that uses technologies applicable to the Internet of Things (IoT). Our application collects data from an accelerometer, stores it on a web server, then displays the r

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I view db2diag.log entries as they are written?

(Ember Crooks) I have not made extensive use of the HADR Tools that IBM offers in the past. Most of my HADR setups to date have either been same-data-center using NEARSYNC or have used ASYNC to copy data between data centers. I haven’t had much cause to tweak my network settings or change my SYNCMOD

(Bobby Woolf) This article reviews the second generation of IBM PureApplication System hardware, with an emphasis on what’s new or different from the first generation. It describes the hardware components contained in the various models, hardware improvements, and more.

(Radha Gowda) Too many tools! Too many repositories! Too many installs! Focus on enterprise deployment rather than database deployment. Any of these sounds familiar?

(Ember Crooks) There are quite a few scenarios in which DBAs need to execute a script of SQL. Sometimes developers provide such a script to be executed. Sometimes we just have a large number of commands that need to be done as a whole.

(Ranganath Dhanasekaran) Learn how the Change Data Capture (CDC) Oracle Redo physical standby configuration in InfoSphere Data Replication allows CDC to read logs off the standby device regardless of the log shipment method.

(Troy Coleman) I shared my thoughts about the IDUG NA conference in May, but this is just one of IDUG’s three major annual events. The European and Australian conferences are both coming up in a few weeks.

(Craig S. Mullins) Assuring optimal performance is one of the most frequently occurring tasks for DB2 DBAs. Being able to assess the effectiveness and performance of various and sundry aspects of your DB2 systems and applications is one of the most important things that a DBA must be able to do.