(Craig S. Mullins) In today’s blog post we will take a brief look at LOBs, or Large OBjects, in DB2.

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Find Which Application is consuming most transaction log space Solution:

(Rajesh Govindan) Connected devices at home services are growing at a rapid pace every day, and the Internet of Things—which excludes personal computers, tablets, and smartphones—is growing even faster than one can imagine. This explosion of connected devices and the plethora of data they are expect

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our studio audience learned something! Based on her popular IBM Developer Works article and blogs, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant Ember Crooks brings her articles on Index Cardinality to life via her excellent IDUG presentation!

(Bill Paris) In an emergency, seconds count. Providing information to emergency responders even before they’re dispatched to the scene can mean the difference between life and death. Delivering that information quickly and reliably requires careful planning and the right combination of technologies.

(James Gill) Over in the dinosaur enclosure, we’ve been talking about Dynamic Workload Balancing and how it works. We think that there might be a missing link in the terminology, so read on and prepare to embrace “transaction routing”…

(Kelly Schlamb) A short time ago, I wrote about improving IT productivity with IBM PureData System for Transactions and I mentioned a couple of new white papers and solution briefs on that topic. Today, I’d like to highlight another one of these new papers: Achieving high availability with PureData

(Craig S. Mullins) Predicting the future is a messy business. I try to avoid making predictions about the future of technology for many reasons. First off, nobody can see into the future, no matter what some fortune tellers say.

(Dave Beulke) Companies are always trying everything to gain a competitive edge, but with dysfunctional data procedures, management/CIO turnover, and lean business profits, new data projects face unprecedented difficulties. With the plethora of IT trends, directions and technologies, cloud platform

(Radha Gowda) Did you know that fraud and financial crime has been estimated at over $3.5 trillion annually? Identity theft alone cost Americans over $24 billion i.e. $10 billion more than all other property crimes? And, 70% of all companies have experienced some type of fraud?