(Conor O’Mahony) Back in the 1970s, a team of IBM researchers sought to create a new architecture for storing, managing and interacting with digital data to free application developers from the burden of having to know the details of how data was managed.

(Chris Young) Dramatically faster queries, enhanced data compression for sharply reduced storage costs, time-aware tables you can create in less than an hour—they’re all realities in the latest release of IBM DB2.

(Matu Agarwal, Ribu Rajan and Ritesh Srivastava) This article shows you how to configure WebSphere Adapter for SAP (here after called SAP Adapter) with Websphere Message Broker (hereafter called Message Broker) in an active-active high availability (HA) solution.

(Serge Rielau) I have have been engaged in discussions on how to use DB2 for LUW for as long as I have been employed with IBM.

(Scott Hayes) I was very impressed by Michael’s presentation at IDUG Prague 2011, so I asked him to be our guest and share his tips. Thankfully, for everyone’s benefit, he agreed. His SQL examples are terrific.

(Kishore Chinda and Ravi Vijay) IBM Informix provides native support for handling time series data. The TimeSeries data type present in IBM Informix helps to reduce the cost of storage as well as helping to increase performance when you select and load large amounts of time series data.

(Robert Catterall) There was a time, not too many years ago, when dynamic SQL was relatively uncommon in many DB2 for z/OS environments. DB2 systems programmers and DBAs insisted on the use of static SQL, and very often got their way.

(Lockwood Lyon) Current use of the term big data is a result of the confluence of several industry trends over the last decade. These trends include accumulation of large amounts of data in databases, the advent of the data warehouse, multiple means of high-speed data transfer, and an explosion in t

In this particular scenario, the administrator notices that the IBM Cognos BI Content Store is growing in size significantly day after day in a way that he cannot explain.

Daniel Luksetich of db2expert.com discusses Oracle to DB2 migration (and Optim) and the resulting DB2 performance.