(Radha Gowda) The first part of this blog gave an overview of IBM Watson Foundation portfolio and DB2 solutions for financial fraud detection. In this part, we’ll go over DB2 Warehouse features that help detect fraud in near-real-time.

(Craig S. Mullins) If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of today’s blog post… surrogate keys. A great debate rages within the realm of database development about the use of ‘synthetic’ keys.

(Willie Favero) This is Part 1 of 4 of a multi-part post covering the WLM buffer pool management function.

(Robert Catterall) Just within the past couple of weeks, I’ve received questions of a similar nature from two different DB2 for z/OS people. In each message, a DBA described a change that he had made in a production DB2 environment (in one case a size increase for several buffer pools, and in the ot

(Ember Crooks) I’m so excited! The IDUG North American Technical Conference is less than a month away. Much like Melanie Stopfer mentioned in her blog entry on IDUG, this is one of MY favorite weeks of the year. There’s something about the IDUG conference.

(Bobby Woolf and Tamiko W Brown) IBM PureApplication System is a cloud computing system-in-a-box with integrated hardware and software for deploying and executing workloads in a cloud. As with other systems, administrators should maintain a current set of backups of the system and its workloads.

Join Julian Stuhler and James Gill as they take a look at DB2 11 from a Sysprog’s perspective. This is part two in the series.

(Troy Coleman) I’m very excited to announce that CA Technologies (my employer) commissioned Dan Luksetich to author a document on DB2 for z/OS performance. Dan is an amazing person who has tremendous knowledge and real-world experience tuning applications that access DB2 for z/OS.

(Robert Catterall) Just within the past couple of weeks, I’ve received questions of a similar nature from two different DB2 for z/OS people. In each message, a DBA described a change that he had made in a production DB2 environment (in one case a size increase for several buffer pools, and in the ot

(Willie Favero) Today, we have three APARs that I thought sounded useful. One affects REALSTORAGE_MANAGEMENT, the second the WLM_REFRESH supplied stored procedure, and the last one that deals with statistics feedback.