(Ember Crooks) I first want to share a few things that stood out this year.

(Bill Cole) I grew up a fan of Formula 1 and the Indianapolis 500. One of the great F1 racers was a British fellow named Sterling Moss. Look him up. Won lots of races for Mercedes-Benz and then went back to England and drove only British marquees. They were underpowered but he still won races.

(Lockwood Lyon) This report allows the DBA to drill down into plan/package details. It gives extremely detailed information about Plans and Packages. It is typically used after the DBA has referenced the Accounting Short Report and determined that there may be a performance issue.

(Michael Sansoterra) If you’ve ever wanted to yell at users and tell them to exit a specific screen (or wanted to just happily end their job automatically) because they’re locking a record, then this tip is for you. Best of all, you’ll be able to use this functionality right from the comfort of your

(Matthias Nicola) As you probably noticed, DB2 10.5 features a new technology called BLU Acceleration which provides significant gains in performance, reduced storage consumption, and simplicity for analytical database workloads.

(Ember Crooks) The whole point of statistical views is to improve the performance of SQL that joins tables. Or to help you collect statistics on expressions – though if you’ve got 10.5, consider expression-based indexes for that instead. Giving the DB2 Optimizer more data is generally a good thing f

(Craig S. Mullins) Part 7 of our ongoing series on DBA Rules of Thumb is a short one on being accessible and approachable… in other words, Don’t Be a Hermit!

(Scott Hayes) 86% of our audience learned something! 54% of our studio audience claimed to be “Nice!” and 46% were “Naughty!” during 2013. Listen to the Who’s Who of DB2 talk about great moments in 2013 and share their views on what they are looking forward to in 2014! Watch our replay for details..

(Abeer Essam Selim and Omneya I. El-Erian) This article shows you how to detect performance bottlenecks and improve performance in WebSphere Transformation Extender maps.

(Gord Sissons, Simmonds Mark T. and Leith Victor) New technologies, such as Hadoop, use a map/reduce paradigm that enables parallel processing of massive volumes of differently structured data that is spread across potentially hundreds and thousands of nodes.