(Leons Petrazickis) An open beta has come out of the IBM Data Server .NET provider for .NET Framework 4.0 as well as DB2 Add-ins for Visual Studio 2010.

(Susan Visser) This year at the IBM Information on Demand Conference, we have five NEW Flashbooks to give out to attendees for free. What are flashbooks? These are the small and easy-to-read books that we created especially for our IOD audience. I’m really happy with the topics we’ve managed to

(Troy Coleman) The evolution of the Internet has opened up new ways for DB2 professionals to connect with their colleagues.

(Willie Favero) Yes, I do realize that I am starting to sound a bit like an extension to IBM’s marketing department. However, DB2 10 GA can’t be all that far away (beta has been going on for a while now), so DB2 is becoming a hot topic.

(Anand Krishniyer, Tony Lee and James Yau) Feeding a data warehouse with changes from the source database can be very expensive. If the extraction is only done with SQL, there is no way to easily identify the rows that have been changed. IBM InfoSphere Replication Server can detect changed data by r

(Kim May) The Fillmore Group is coordinating the startup of a virtual users group of DB2 Connect users. We are actively seeking DB2 Connect users to participate – as members, as board members, and as presenters.

(Scott Hayes) During this special edition of The DB2Night Show, DBI will be interviewing our top candidates for our open Software Consultant Engineer position (see http://www.dbisoftware.com/careers.php for details). Each candidate will be given 8 minutes to describe a DB2 LUW challenge they faced a

(Stephan Jou, William Lee, Thanh Pham and Biraj Saha) The goal of high availability is to provide a backup mechanism to transfer requests and data processing to a standby system in the event of primary system failure, but user and system requirements vary, meaning there is no one ideal configuration

(Willie Favero) Here’s a question that frequently comes up in any DB2 for z/OS tuning discussion. Everyone always wants to know what that other time is, the time we are not talking about in the rest of the accounting data.

(Michael Sansoterra) One of the tedious chores that many developers face is keeping many different data sources synchronized. It is common for mid- to large-sized companies to have multiple software packages with requirements to keep synchronized copies of the item master, customer master, employee