(Albert Cooley) This article describes the technical details of IBM InfoSphere Guardium, a solution for real-time database activity monitoring and protection. Existing information security solutions often leave databases vulnerable to advanced hacking techniques and insider attacks. InfoSphere Guard

(Raul F. Chong) This September I will be giving away 25 free IBM certification vouchers to take any DB2 certification exam at any time, anywhere in the world where there is a testing center such as Prometric.

(Willie Favero) Have you downloaded the latest and greatest DB2 9 for z/OS documentation? I was looking for something today and noticed, much to my surprise, that a couple of the DB2 9 product manuals were refreshed back in June 2010… and I didn’t know.. so I couldn’t let you all know… but now I

(Darryl K. Taft) IBM has become a major proponent of business analytics. The emergence of smarter systems that are interconnected and streaming real-time information is presenting enterprises with a unique opportunity to transform decision making. New opportunities to use this data to predict busine

(Henrik Loeser) Several XML-related functions that DB2 offers allow to specify the “BY REF” keyword. Is it worth using it? And what does it mean anyway? Let’s take a look at it.

(Mirav Kapadia) A discussion of the reliability and performance characteristics of Informix that make it an excellent candidate for use as an embedded database server, and a walkthrough of creating an embedded deployment. Informix provides features—such as the Deployment Wizard and Deployment Utili

(Willie Favero) I started writing this up a few days ago and got distracted. Since it’s Friday, I thought I would make it an installment of my APAR Friday series… although that was not the original intent. Originally, I just though this was a cool enhancement that’s going to make someone’s life ju

(Rebecca Bond) I spend a lot of time in New Orleans, the home of the Big Easy, so why shouldn’t my IBM DB2 tasks be easy too?

(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

(Conor O’Mahony) Remember the infamous advertisement from Oracle where they claimed they would be announcing a TPC-C benchmark result with XX million tpmC, where they hinted at a massive double digit TPC-C result. And then they ended up announcing a result with more than 7 million tpmC. At the time,