(Susan Lawson) To reduce elapsed time for a query, DB2 can give queries parallel resources, such as several I/O paths or processors. By taking advantage of these resources, queries can run in a shorter period of time, enabling more work to be pushed through the system. Parallelism can help improve t

(Susan Visser) Yet another great reason for you to attend IDUG in Denver this May… we are launching the latest Flashbook.

This document is intended to provide a troubleshooting methodology which incorporates publicly available utilities to diagnose and resolve an issue identified within a specific use case. The use case will be presented as a scenario where an IBM Cognos Support Analyst is working with a client to diag

(Dave Beulke) This week IBM finally announced that the beta “Galileo” is ready and generally available as DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW). This new version of DB2 10 for LUW extends DB2’s leadership position as the premier database for businesses that want the best performance, reliability

In this first installment of a three-part video series, Tom DeJuneas of Coca-Cola Bottling discusses migrating from Oracle Database to IBM DB2, the patching and compression advantages of IBM DB2, and the autonomic computing features of DB2.

(Etienne Noiret) This article illustrates an example of how to build a simple mobile user interface that interacts with a business process. The implementation of the mobile UI uses Dojo with the IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile, and the sample business process is

(Eric Franzon) We caught up with Bernie Spang, IBM’s Director, Strategy and Marketing, Database Software and Systems, to discuss the latest release of its enterprise data products DB2 and InfoSphere.

(Philip Nelson) Whenever a new DB2 version is announced I get asked “Should I be thinking about upgrading?” My answer is always “Yes.” That doesn’t mean that I think you should upgrade your production systems the minute DB2 10 becomes generally available. The key thing is that you take account of t

(Sanjit Chakraborty and Elisabeth Bach) In this tutorial, you’ll learn about IBM Informix database backup and restore concepts and strategies, and you’ll learn about utilities and commands for managing your database backup and restore processes.

(Chris Eaton) IBM has been focused on compression in DB2 for many years now. With 9.1, DB2 implemented table compression using a unique global table object dictionary to compress out globally repeating patterns from tables.