(Joe Pluta) Today’s article is my first dedicated to Data Definition Language (DDL), the specific SQL syntax used to define tables. It’s counterpart in the green-screen world is Data Description Specifications (DDS), the simple data definition language we’ve used forever.

(Glenn Galler and Ron Bisceglia) Every customer needs a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan. The strategies used differ from one customer to another and they differ in time to recovery and loss of data. For IMS, there are five types of disaster recovery solutions: restart, recovery, recovery and restart, co

(samkumar) Hi guys… So DB2 10 is here and is available for download…

(Clara Liu) The quantity of data that is stored in a data warehouse environment is growing at an unprecedented rate.

(Chris Howard) With the introduction of IBM InfoSphere® Streams 2.0 and the Streams processing language (SPL), developers gained access to two new collection types: set and map. This article describes these three collection types and how to exploit them as part of a native SPL application. You will

(Dave Beulke) The IBM release of its new DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW) provides additional functionality for everyone. Along with this announcement IBM announced a refresh of all their InfoSphere Optim tools for working with the new DB2 10 for LUW environments.

(Paolo Bruni, Patric Becker, Willie Favero, Ravikumar Kalyanasundaram, Andrew Keenan, Steffen Knoll, Nin Lei, Cristian Molaro and PS Prem) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Version 2.1 for z/OS (also called DB2 Analytics Accelerator or Query Accelerator in in this book and in DB2 for z/OS documentat

(Annette C. Green) This article shows you how to locally test a JMS application running on WebSphere Application Server without having to connect to a WebSphere MQ queue manager, by configuring your local WebSphere Test Environment to simulate WebSphere MQ.

(Thuan Bui) Curt Cotner, IBM Fellow, VP, and CTO for Database Servers and Tools, describes the capabilities in the InfoSphere Optim Database Management Solutions for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows to support new features in DB2 for LUW V10.1, such as pureScale, multi-temperature storage, adaptive c

A major new release of the free edition of the IBM DB2 database is now available for download. DB2 Express-C 10.1 comes with Time Travel Query for improved historical reporting as well as SPARQL and an RDF triplestore for NoSQL data storage.