(Willie Favero) I’m still talking about real-time statistics. This is what is referred to as the trickle affect. Periodically I keep discussing another little piece of real-time statistics. This stuff is important… it’s useful… and in my opinion it’s pretty interesting…. Every time I reread one of m

(Joseph Veleeparambil and Shawn Moe) Two years after its hugely successful release of IBM Informix 11.7, IBM continues to deliver significant new versions of the Informix data server. Building on 11.7, the Informix 12.1 release focuses on its core online transaction processing (OLTP) strengths of hi

(Lee Jung Chu and Sudhir Singh) IBM DB2 10.1 Linux, UNIX, and Windows introduces a new join method called zigzag join. Zigzag join improves consistency in performance as well as reduces the execution time of queries in data warehouse or data mart environments with large volumes of potentially partit

(Michael Sansoterra) In IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 4 (TR4), IBM gave SQL developers the ability to insert data into a local database table from a remote DB2 for i database table within the comfort of a single SQL statement.

(Joe Pluta) SQL has always been a great tool for querying data. The problem is that SQL doesn’t always lend itself to the sort of pattern analysis that’s needed in enterprise data processing. Something goes awry in the database and the only way to identify the source of the problem is to backtrack t

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(Willie Favero) An interesting title for a blog post? The word “update” implies I have discussed real time statistic before; I have not. Although, I wish I had. In fact, it’s getting ever more difficult to come up with an original DB2 for z/OS subject to write about.

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(Jack Vamvas) Question : I recently received a query from an application owner, who reported application outage issue.