(Frank Fillmore) Dr. Sheldon Cooper of “The Big Bang Theory” regularly records a YouTube video called “Fun with Flags” so I’m going to call this blog post “Fun with SQL”.

(Robert Catterall) This past summer, I delivered a couple of presentations at a meeting of a regional Db2 users group in the USA. During the lunch break, I shared a table with a member of the Db2 for z/OS support team at a large financial institution.

(Scott) Famous for putting his kids through college by Dropping Db2 Indexes, Martin covers a wide variety of Db2 Performance Tuning topics with focus on indexes, prefetch I/O, bufferpools, Db2 MDC and ITC tables, and much more (detailed below).

(David Churn) In our connected world, we send and receive messages with other businesses using different formats.

(Sandeep R Patil, Sasikanth Eda, Atul V Gore and Nils Haustein) The appropriate storage for hosting business-critical data and the proper analytic software for deep inspection of that data is necessary, especially for data that is subject to regulatory compliance..

(Martin) 98% of our studio audience learned something!Cristian covered all aspects of distributed access to Db2.

(Craig S. Mullins) Let’s talk about dirty reads (with apologies to the AC/DC pun in the title of this blog post).

(John Maenpaa) Using JSON is a lot easier than using XML. Manually editing a document is much more manageable and adjusting the structure is quick and easy. It is also easier to create an invalid JSON document without knowing it.

(Lockwood Lyon) As big data solutions grow in size and complexity, concerns can rise about future performance. Will the current application scale up and out? Are there potential issues with data consistency? Can your big data application co-exist on the same hardware with regular production processi

(James Gill) The DB2 for z/OS REST API has been available on V11 and V12 for a while now and has continued to evolve through IBMs continuous delivery maintenance strategy.