(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! Our special guest, Sanjay Kumar, shared with our audience information from his book IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook.

(Ember Crooks) Affects db2Œs locking/scanning behavior when using CS or RS isolation levels. Causes DB2 to skip deleted rows and keys. Variable is activated at database start time, and is engaged (or not) at statement compile or bind time.

(Cynthia M. Saracco and Anshul Dawra) If you want to work with "big data" without writing code or scripts, you’ll want to look into BigSheets. BigSheets is a spreadsheet-style tool for business analysts provided with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, a platform based on the open source Apache Hadoop proje

(david t) A couple of months ago, IBM announced enhancements to its data replication in support of DB2 v10 for UNIX and Windows. This month, IBM released an update to its Q Replication Dashboard that supports those enhancements and much more. In fact, most the Dashboard’s enhancements can be used

(Willie Favero) You all are going to like this.. something that has been needed for a while now.

(Yan Yan Liu, Lei Li and Qi Rong Wang) IBM Database Patterns provide solutions to easily provision and manage databases on IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) in a private cloud. IWD is a cloud management appliance that delivers a patterns-based approach to deploying and managing application environments in

(Ember Crooks) DB2 “commands” are not available via SQL. They are separate commands that when we had a shelf of books instead of the Info Center were available in the “Command Reference”. Many of them are also in ~/sqllib/bin, though there can be other locations. Some are very simple while others ar

(Liping Zhang, Naresh Chainani, Alexandria Burkleaux and Roman Melnyk) This document communicates best practices for managing data growth using the rich set of features in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our studio audience learned something! I think that pretty much says it all! Frankly, I was extremely impressed with the depth of Vikram’s knowledge and expertise. I saw commands during his presentation that I didn’t even know existed!

(Troy Coleman) A reader recently e-mailed me, explaining that his company is looking to convert all its plans that contain a DBRM to plans that contain only a package list. I pointed him to an article I wrote on this subject, “Converting to Packages.”