(Grant Hutchison) R is not just the 18th letter of the English language alphabet, it is a very powerful open source programming language that excels at data analysis and graphics. This article explains how to use the power of R with data that’s housed in relational database servers. Learn how to use

(Bill Cole) I like racing. Not watching it on television. That’s like watching a peach rot. It’s not quite so bad in person, though. I raced cars on ovals and road tracks and drag strips – not that you care – and one thing every racer knows is position counts, even in drag racing.

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Find Which DB2 Thread is consuming High CPU Solution:

(Thuan Bui, Jason Sizto, Ellen Livengood and Robert Heath) This video gives an overview of IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS and the supporting DB2 and Optim Database tools.

(Dave Beulke) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) continues to be improved, and the Version 4.1 enhancements really help take your SQL program performance to the next level. The following five changes within Version 4.1 of IBM’s DB2 Analytics Accelerator increase its flexibility, availability,

(Joe Geller) DB2 10.5 is best known for BLU Acceleration, which is the new columnar store for tables. Organizing tables by column rather than row can lead to dramatic improvements in elapsed time for analytical queries.

(Gautam K. Bhat and Arundeep B. Veerabhadraiah) This article shows you how to create a high-availability (HA) WebSphere MQ implementation using overlapping clusters and the namelist. It also shows you how to test the setup by creating an alias queue on the bridge queue manager.

(Kim May) With IBM’s 2014 focus on Big Data solutions I want to highlight The Fillmore Group’s IBM authorized training classes coming this Spring – and invite new BigInsights and Streams customers to join us.

(Ember Crooks) Sometimes the things we studied in college are actually useful. As much as I hated my statistics professor, I still learned a lot that I frequently use. Maybe I don’t do many multiple regression problems these days, but I use standard deviation a lot. It is a concept that every DBA or

(Troy Coleman) As I read this Willie Favero post about zIIP capacity, I got to wondering about additional zIIP processing capabilities in DB2 11.