(Willie Favero) If you haven’t, you really should. It’s changed considerably over the years becoming quite the analytics tool. However, rather than me explaining what makes QMF interesting today, how about hearing it from someone who lives QMF……. Mike Biere, IBM Marketing Manager for DW and Busin

(Ember Crooks) There are certainly more authoritative souces on 10 than me, but having just come from the conference and learned at least enough to get certified, I thought I’d share. They seem to be pushing the big data/data warehousing angle, which I find a bit annoying as a OLTP DBA, because I th

(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference was a great success with more attendees than the past few years and great DB2 technical educational information. As I talked about during the week through Twitter, and in my blog last week, IDUG had many technical presentations, good

(Chin Huang and Ton Ngo) The introduction of IBM PureSystems — an expert, integrated, enterprise-level family of cloud system that encompass applications, services, hardware, and even the expertise (delivered in the form of best practices patterns) — takes cloud computing to new heights.

(Henrik Loeser) When I am teaching a DB2 class, or data management in general, security is always on the agenda. Authentication and authorization are basic terms, but often they are mixed up. That is the moment when I bring the following analogy.

(Willie Favero) Title says it all. Without this APAR, DB2 can spend a tremendous amount of time searching index space maps for free space an an effort to avoid extending the page set.

(David Sky) A number of performance improvements have been included in DB2 Version 10.1 to improve the speed of many queries. These improvements are automatic; there are no configuration settings or changes to the SQL statements required.

(Ember Crooks) Well, I managed to have my first week since December with no post last week. I was litterally doing something at the conference from 8 AM to 10 PM every day, and trying to fit regular work in the gaps.

(Serge Rielau) There are multiple ways in which DB2 supports recursion in SQL.

(Jarek Miszczyk) IBM PureFlex System is a cloud-ready, expert, integrated system that brings together the infrastructure and application layer with proven patterns and can be specifically optimized to meet specific needs, providing all of the infrastructure elements required to run your workloads in