(mkrafick) This article is based off the ¡°Boost Your Speed ¨C Index Read Efficiency¡± presentation for the DB2 Night Show (Episode #129) ¨C DB2¡äs Got Talent competition held on Friday, March 14th at 11am EST. Progression within the competition is based solely on audience voting.

(Peng Wang, Ke Chen and Qi Min) IBM Data Studio is an Eclipse-based development tool for database developers and administrators. It offers a wide variety of features, including tools for debugging complex routines. Data Studio 4.1 has new features for debugging DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW)

(Craig S. Mullins) As a user of DB2, which I’m guessing you are since you are reading this blog, you should always be on the lookout for useful tools that will help you achieve business value from your investment in DB2. There are several categories of tools that can help you to achieve this value.

(Dave Beulke) Last week I talked about ways to choose meaningful analytics. Here are three more ways to make the analytics even better for your big data project.

(Peter Broadhurst and Luberto Klaassen) Part 3 of this article series contains SCA code examples to create workload-balanced client connections to a WebSphere MQ queue manager cluster configured as an MQ hub – the “flexible and scalable topology pattern” described in Part 1.

(Larry Heathcote) I’ve been thinking a lot about the database and data warehousing markets lately. Like “shower moment” thinking – you know when you’re really passionate about something, you think about it in the shower. Well, for me, yesterday I had a “highway moment.”

(Roman Kharkovski) Despite all of the choices one has for connecting applications and services within and across organization boundaries, message oriented middleware (see MOM in wikipedia) still remains the primary choice for architects and developers to reliably deliver messages.

(Nate Murphy and Elwin Harrison) Over the last several years, there has been tremendous growth in the use of online banking, smartphones, tablets and other remote devices. In addition, there has been astronomical growth in the development of applications that can access business information via the

(Jack Vamvas) Question: We’re running an application which connects to a DB2 9.7 on Red Hat Linux 6. On the last batch job the following error message was reported.

(Robert Routzahn) Big data streams into many organizations at high velocity, and therefore the level of performance for processing big data is very important. Data also changes rapidly, and it must be fed to various applications in the system quickly so that management can react to changing business