(Susan Visser) This year’s IOD conference was amazing! Record crowds, lots of events, great people, and for the first time ever, our beloved product DB2 was front & center! DB2 with BLU Acceleration is clearly a winner and you had no trouble learning about it at IOD: the whole conference was paint

(Willie Favero) This could be the longest post (in words) with the least amount of information (overall content) that I have ever published. For that reason I am going to break it down into multiple posts to make it easier to read. You see, what I want to attempt to do over the next couple of post s

(Ember Crooks) One of the top SQL tips on many lists for developers of SQL is to avoid applying a function to the table data. I think of this as avoiding funcitons on the left of my comparison operator (=, !=, >,

(Craig S. Mullins) A little while ago I took on the task of cleaning out my office closet. As I undertook this task, I paused regularly to review items that were stowed away in there. One of the more interesting things I stopped to peruse was a cache of articles and magazines from the 1990s on the O

(Martin Jungfer and Joern Klauke) The IBM DB2 Advanced Copy Services (DB2 ACS) support taking snapshots for backup purposes in DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows databases. You can use the DB2 ACS API either through libraries implemented by your storage hardware vendors or implement this API on your ow

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!This show is a DB2 user experience at its best: experience-based tips and takeaways! Steve and Damon gave practical user tips for managing DB2 10. Watch the replay…

(Dave Beulke) Information overload is the constant at all conferences and the recent European IDUG and US IOD conferences were both tremendous at providing great detailed information. All the enhancements in DB2 11 for z/OS, DB2 10.5 BLU Acceleration, and all the latest Pure Data systems were detai

(Amyris Rada and Roman Melnyk, B.) Learn the details of what makes each edition of IBM DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows unique. The authors lay out the specifications for each edition, licensing considerations, historical changes throughout the DB2 release cycle, and references to some interest

(Kent Milligan) If you’ve closely followed the enhancements being delivered for DB2 for i, you’ve noticed that each round of enhancements usually includes a couple features that make it easier for IBM i developers to adopt and use SQL. For example, recent DB2 for i updates made it easier to utilize

(Willie Favero) Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, err I mean back into my blog, up pops yet another subsystem parameter write-up… (smile)….