(Daniel Luksetich) It seems that at every customer site I visit the database administrators and application programmers are separated into “us and them”. Never the two groups communicate about application issues unless there is a performance or cost issue.

According to research by PWC the vast majority of Black Friday spending will be done online. This means that retailers are under immense pressure to ensure that their IT systems are up to the job.

(Ember Crooks) Connecting to a database is required before most actions can be taken on the database. A Db2 connection is made at the database level, and not at the instance or server level.

(Emily Alameida) In the last blog post in the education series, Tim discussed the Db2 SQL Coding badge offered by InterSkill. Another company that offers Db2 skill courses is ExitCertified. They offer a variety of instructor-led classroom or virtual courses as well as self-paced learning including t

(Jim Dee) There have been several high visibility data exposures in the news over the last year or so. As a Db2 DBA, one of your responsibilities is the protection of the data your business needs to run.

(Ted Holt) Because I wish to be as valuable and productive as possible to the people who pay me to program their computers, I continually search the Web for new ideas and techniques. Doing so often leads me to sites that cater to other computing platforms.

(Mike Connor) At IBM, we’re proud of our decades of industry leadership in the database space—inventing SQL, pioneering relational databases like Db2 and Informix for high performance data analytics, and helping drive forward open-source technologies such as Apache, Eclipse, Java, Python and Hadoop,

(Robert Catterall) In an entry posted to this blog about three years ago, I advocated for putting some thought into the PBG versus PBR decision (partition-by-growth versus partition-by-range) for larger tables (for smaller tables, PBG is often the sensible choice, especially when the associated tabl

(Henrik Loeser) Last week I blogged about using Botkit Middleware to create a Watson-powered database interface. I pointed to a tutorial demonstrating a Slack chatbot for a SQL database (Db2).

(Linda Claussen) With the ever increasing number of features and functions being added to Db2 for z/OS it’s easy to overlook the finer points of some of those features. Take in point the “Profile Tables”.