(Scott Hayes) Judge Susan Visser, IBM, wrote a terrific blog about our 2nd contestant search show. Rather than steal her thunder, we suggest you READ HER BLOG! 93% of our studio audience indicated that they learned something that will be helpful to them!

(Deepak T Naik and Jon Deng) Learn how you can use IBM InfoSphere Information Server to accomplish bulk loading with Salesforce.com. In addition, you’ll learn how to load various types of binary files into Salesforce.com. Finally, you’ll see how you can use the bulk load feature on Amazon EC2.

(Paolo Bruni and Marichu Scanlon) Stored procedures can provide major benefits in the areas of application performance, code re-use, security, and integrity. DB2 has offered ever-improving support for developing and operating stored procedures.

(Susan Visser) On today’s DB2Night Show, we had the second set of competitors who are competing in the DB2 has Talent Competition. This week we had 6 amazing competitors who made it difficult for we judges (Martin Hubel, Klaas Brant, and I) to choose who would move on to the finals.

(James T Mulvey, Timothy Kaczynski and Frank Golazeski) IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V7 introduced optimized local adapters support to provide an optimized, high performance bi-directional connector for WebSphere Application Server and applications running in external z/OS address space

(Robert Catterall) Although roles and trusted contexts have been on the mainframe DB2 scene for over three years (they were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS), there is still some misunderstanding in the DB2 community regarding what these features are and how they can be used.

(Willie Favero) You find what you think is a possible optimizer error. You’ve run the SQL multiple times and check the access path with various tools. Something just doesn’t seem quite right.

(Kai Zeller) How to set up the feature ‘Display the hierarchical information for crosstabs and charts in the report output’ (Breadcrumbs) within IBM Cognos Analysis Studio.

(Julian Stuhler) Many DB2 experts have given excellent presentations on this important subject, and there are several good techniques you can use to reduce the elapsed time for high-volume concurrent INSERT operations.

(Craig Mullins) Naming conventions sometimes instigate conflict within the world of DB2, especially when it comes to views. But, really, it should be very easy. Just always remember, that a view is a logical table.