(Robert Andrews, Theo Bär, Gene Cobb, Rick Flagler, Kei Fujii, Hector Gongora, Doug Mack, Simona Pacchiarini, Septia Sukariningrum, Yu Yu Wang, Yu Zhe Zhi, Yu Zhu and Hernando Bedoya) Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad term relating to applications designed to analyze data for purposes of underst

(Ember Crooks) There are a a vast array of things you can do in SQL. But just because you can doesn’t always mean that you should.

(Cindy Russell) This analyst finds that DB2 with BLU Acceleration for in-memory computing delivers consistently higher performance at a lesser cost. Read for yourself.

(Susann Fritzsche and Katrin Hagemann) This 2-part article series describes a customer solution that extensively used the inbound and outbound processing of WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files. Part 1 explains how to sequence and order the files and the different possibilities to configure the polling

(Troy Coleman) When I recently wrote about the new DB2 11 drop column support, I admitted that I couldn’t understand why this was such a highly requested feature. A commenter provided some insight.

(Cindy Russell) IBM InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay can significantly improve your database testing experience and help you successfully manage change in your database environments, whether you are adopting BLU Acceleration, upgrading DB2, or making the move to DB2.

(Willie Favero) Today’s fix is a pretty straight forward one. You all know how fast log apply helps improve recovery times for a table space, right?

(Robert Catterall) By now, a lot of you probably know that a really important action to take, once your DB2 subsystem is at the Version 10 (conversion mode) level, is to rebind your plans and packages. Taking this action delivers several benefits:

(Chuck Ballard, Jason Arnold, Rich Briddell, Heverson Campelo, Cecile Madsen, Jayanti Mahapatra and Eduardo Pingarilho) With ever-increasing workloads on production systems from transaction, batch, online query and reporting applications, the challenges of high availability and workload balancing ar

(Craig S. Mullins) Today’s post in the DBA Rules of Thumb series is short and sweet. It can be simply stated as “Keep Everything!”