(Julian Stuhler) IBM has been on the acquisition trail again, and this time it was Netezza’s turn to take the call. In this month’s column, we’ll take a look at some of the possible implications of the purchase, as well as rounding up a couple other significant announcements around pureScale and DB2

(Jing Wen Cui, Ying Ji Sun and Yu Jie Gu) As highlighted in part 1 of the series, the Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when enterprises want to model their workflow. Its latest 43 workflow patterns post a big challenge to all kinds of BPEL engines.

(Willie Favero) Last Thursday, the last day of this year’s Information on Demand (IOD) Conference, while I was doing my presentation on universal table spaces for a second time, I was asked if the the DSNZPARM that allows you to update the partitioning key still existed. I wasn’t sure..

(Adam Gartenberg) Those of you who could not join us in Las Vegas last week for the Information on Demand conference still have the chance to experience the event through the Information On Demand Virtual 2010 experience.

(Bonnie Baker) In this column I like to answer questions that I am asked most often via e-mail, at conferences, and by my class and seminar attendees. One of the top 10 questions is: “Does the order in which I code my predicates matter?”

(Philip Nelson) A few months ago I blogged on the announcement of DB2 pureScale technology. Since then there have been a number of significant developments.

(Scott Hayes) Are you attending IDUG EMEA in Vienna? I hope so! The hard working volunteers at IDUG asked me to repeat my extremely successful and popular Ed Seminar from North America 2010 – “DB2 LUW Performance Analysis and Tuning Workshop”.

Since DB2 was first supported on Ubuntu 5.04 LTS, IBM and Canonical have shown that the DB2 and Ubuntu products can deliver a stable environment to run critical business applications.

(Joe Pluta) Embedded SQL programming is one of the most productive additions ever made to the IBM i development environment. But it’s rarely used to run the traditional example statements you see in the SQL programming books: statements that increase the price of every item by 15 percent.

(Jing Wen Cui, Ying Ji Sun and Yu Jie Gu) The Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when enterprises want to model their workflow. Its latest 43 workflow patterns post a big challenge to all kinds of BPEL engines.