(Doug Mahugh) OData is a web protocol that unlocks data silos to facilitate data access from browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and other scenarios.

(Henrik Loeser) Yesterday, I reveived a question about where to find specific metadata in DB2. The customer wanted to find out which privileges had been granted within a database and they were aware that db2look can produce this list. But where does this information come from?

(Mohamed El-Bishbeashy) Learn skills to properly manage your DB2 database servers. This is Part 5 of a series of eight “DB2 10.1 DBA certification exam 611” tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration (exam 611).

(Jonathan Lidaka and Scott Consolatti) Creating an experience for multiple devices is essential, but targeting the right set of devices can be challenging. Responsive web design (RWD) has become a popular approach for creating a single web site that optimizes content and layout automatically based o

(Ember Crooks) This post is specific to DB2 for UNIX or Linux. SQL1042C can have a number of causes and be received as an error from a number of different commands. The IBM Support Portal does a good job of coming up with the issues and solutions. And I have it in the back of my head that when I […]

(Susan Visser) Earlier I posted a blog about the DB2 10 Certification Tutorials for Fundamentals Exam 610 that are being published on developerWorks. There is also a series of tutorials that are being published to help you pass Exam 611- DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows DBA.

(Bharat Vyas and Deepa Vyas) This article describes the basics of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM DB2 architecture, and shows you how to use the Tivoli Storage Manager backup and restore features. This article also provides step-by-step instructions that show you how to back up and restore data o

(Miao Zheng, Ning Jiang Bin, Song Xiao Yu, Serge Bourbonnais and Yi Jin) Understanding the impact of workload and database characteristics on the performance of both DB2, MQ, and the replication process is useful for achieving optimal performance.

(Willie Favero) Going retro again today (just like last Friday) and taking a look back at “Red-Only Switching” made me think of another similar feature that became a part of DB2 for z/OS at about the same time. Read on and I hope you enjoy.

(Mohamed El-Bishbeashy) Learn skills to properly manage your DB2 database servers. This is Part 5 of a series of eight "DB2 10.1 fundamentals certification exam" tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration (exam 611).