(Susan Visser) What an exciting week! With Watson winning on Jeopardy, meeting a member of the Watson team, and then today, the 3rd episode of the DB2Night Show’s competition DB2 has talent.

(Maksym Petrenko, Mike Winer and Joyce Coleman) Data in a data warehouse can be classified according to its temperature. The temperature of data is based on how often it is accessed, how volatile it is, and how important the performance of the queries that access the data is.

(Leon Katsnelson) There is a really interesting discussion going on the IDUG’s DB2 List that started with a simple question:

(Willie Favero) Actually, I didn’t personally, but one of my articles made the cover.

(Shenfu (Mike) Fan) WebSphere Business Events supplies two pre-built nodes for integrating with WebSphere Message Broker. By using these nodes in WebSphere Message Broker message flows, events can be sent to WebSphere Business Events and actions emitted from WebSphere Business Events can be received

(Kim May) Register today to learn how you can accomplish efficient and affordable IBM mainframe or DB2 data integration in a heterogeneous environment for BI, reporting, MDM, DW, and more. The session will conclude with a live product demo and Q&A session.

(Lockwood Lyon) Monitoring an ERP application suite involves using several basic measurement techniques. Since it probably co-exists with other applications within a DB2 subsystem or data sharing group, a means must be found to separate ERP package performance measures from those of other applicatio

(Ravi Pachipala, Neeraj Kapoor and Manoj Ghogale) This article discusses the merge statement of IBM Informix Dynamic Server, which follows the SQL 2003 standard. The merge command is especially useful in data warehouse (ETL) environments where transaction tables are merged into bigger warehouse tabl

(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU1101 is now complete. It contains all PE resolutions or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through December 2010.

(Dave Beulke) The proper free space settings along with the appropriate allocations detailed last week can help you avoid any reorgs for a long time while your database grows.