(Martin Hubel) The DBA wouldn’t touch it as there are 83,000 tables in SAP. He was busy with other applications, and he had no time in dealing with a big package that was a mess. During development, there had been no DBA assigned to the project, and now it was time for some database attention to get

(Craig S. Mullins) A little more than two years ago I wrote about The Importance of Database Design Reviews here on this blog. The general idea of that post is that reviewing the scope and content of a database implementation before it moves to production is an important aspect of database systems a

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) Difference between Authentication Id and Authorization Id Happy Learning & Sharing

(Mohana Kera) IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Collaborative Edition (CE) is the master data management solution middleware that establishes a single, integrated, consistent view of master data inside and outside of an enterprise and supports the building of master data in collaborative w

(Keys Botzum and Bill O’Donnell) Because the integrity of your processing environment is at stake, questions about security must be answered as quickly as possible. To that end, this article provides quick, direct answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about IBM WebSphere Application

(Willie Favero) I’m working on a blog post for later this week about a new combination hardware/software compression feature that uses SMF (System Management Facility) data as its first use case. Writing about reducing the amount of SMF data being stored reminded me of the many times someone had be

(Troy Coleman) Recently Craig Mullins was reflecting on the ‘war” between object databases (ODBM) and relational database technology (RDMS) 15-20 years ago and how it parallels the current “conflict” between SQL and NoSQL big data database systems.

(Martin) 98% of our studio audience learned something!There are improved facilities to improve DB2 migration. Julian gave in-depth tips to ease migration to DB2 1 and beyond.

(Dave Beulke) As I noted in last week’s blog, there are many things IT organizations can learn from the website problems on Healthcare.gov.

(Robert Catterall) A few months ago, I posted an entry to this blog on the subject of “moving queries to data,” the idea being that when data to be analyzed for decision support purposes originates in a DB2 for z/OS database (as a great deal of the world’s corporate and governmental data does), a ve