(Danny Arnold) As part of the IBM Information Management team, I’m often asked to describe the advantages of DB2 10.5 over the Oracle offerings (Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Exadata, and other products). There are many reasons to choose DB2 10.5 over Oracle Database from a business value standpoint i

(Craig S. Mullins) Businesses today are gathering and storing more data than ever before. We are said to be living in the “information age,” and data is the capital of the new economy. With this explosion in the amount of data being stored, organizations are relying more than ever on data storage, t

(Henrik Loeser) A couple of years back I was on a trip to Spain. During the taxi to the runway in Frankfurt, our aircraft was diverted to a parking position to get a technical problem fixed.

(David Simpson) IBM Data Studio is a no-charge product provided by IBM to allow users, developers and administrators to interact with databases from a client machine. IBM Data Studio may be used on a variety of platforms, but is most commonly used with the DB2 family of products.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! During today’s show, Pavan shares his excellent IDUG presentation in which he details some of the DB2 DPF challenges he faced, his solutions to these challenges, and his measured successes. Learn how to reduce CPU utilization, make SAS queries ru

(Radha Gowda) That is the new marketing campaign for all new Audi A3 – a luxury without compromise at an affordable price. How does Audi AG accomplish that? By creating super-efficient business processes for a start.

(Jason K. Yong and Martin Smithson) Combining IBM Integration Bus with WSRR lets you dynamically retrieve service metadata from WSRR and use it to modify message flow behavior at runtime. This article series shows you how to integrate the two products, and provides samples that address several signi

(Kaushik Nagaraj) I have been trying to create a script that will refresh the test database using QA data on a regular schedule. As part of the script I force all the connections and then deactivate the database.

(Michael Sansoterra) In this tip about new DB2 for i 7.2 features, I’m going to cover some noteworthy news about user-defined function (UDF) features. The feature list includes how a function name is now resolved based on casting rules, named parameters, parameter defaults and array parameters.

(Tony Andrews) Stored procedures in relational database management systems (RDBMSs) have been around a long time, and they merely call another program that performs some action or actions for the calling program. There are many benefits for having a called stored procedure do some of the work.