(Ember Crooks) IBM announced on April 3rd a new version of DB2. I tend to be stuck a few versions back due to what WebSphere Commerce certifies with, but I’m constantly learning about and drooling over new versions.

(Martin Lansche and Keys Botzum) Security consists of more than just some firewalls at the edge of your network protecting you from the outside. It is a difficult and complex set of actions and procedures that strive to strengthen your systems as much as is appropriate. Part 1 of this two-part artic

(Rick Swagerman) A table function, as you will likely know, is a function that returns a number of rows instead of a single scalar value. Table functions can therefore be invoked in the FROM clause of an SQL statement, while scalar functions get invoked in expressions.

(Laura) Thanks to all our Twitter followers who joined us for our first DB2 Geek Q&A Session. We had some great questions which got our Geeks thinking! Below are a selection of our top questions and answers.

(Ember Crooks) As with the other entries in my DB2 Basics series, this entry does not cover everything about triggers. Instead, I’m covering the basics and a few important points.

(Chris Young) Research engineers at Intel and IBM have a long history of working together to offer industry-leading technologies—many of them designed for the fastest computers on the planet, like the supercomputing clusters used for astrophysics or oil and gas exploration.

(Shilpa Jaganmohan, William Steinagle, Simon Bielasiak and Lynn Pate) This demo is the third in a series about masking sensitive data to privatize that data. Learn how mask a person’s first name in a table using a gender-specific lookup table. The Optim random lookup data privacy provider is used in

(Dave Beulke) Database management performance continues to advance with the latest IBM BLU Acceleration technology improvements unveiled today. The IBM BLU Acceleration technology features new innovations from the IBM Research and Development Labs that literally dramatically cuts Big Data issues do

(Bjarne Nelson) As I was sitting in on a deep dive session on Netezza at the IBM zIM (z Information Management) Boot Camp in late January 2013, I was having a bit of a déjà vu from way back when I was first introduced to DB2 UDB EEE (Enterprise Extended Edition).

(Sonali Samantaray) Learn how to write a custom administrative client to invoke the administrative tasks available through the Admin Command Framework in IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.