(Troy Coleman) While DB2 10 is loaded with performance improvements across the board, for this week I’ll focus on the index processing improvements.

(Keith McDonald) When a monitoring or reporting tool reaches a certain level of sophistication, it needs to be able to report on itself as well. The db2top tool has a large number of configurable options, so it is fortunate that there is a screen that lets us see the present value of each such optio

(Leons Petrazickis) Downgrading from DB2 Enterprise to DB2 Express-C is a fairly straightforward process.

(Andre Albuquerque and Irina Delidjakova) This technical paper will help you get started with DB2 Express-C and Virtuozzo Containers for Linux. You can use this paper to perform the following tasks: –Install the DB2 Express-C EZ templates on a Virtuozzo hardware node –Create and configure rep

(Suyash Jape, Gurpreet Singh and Rohit Jain) In this article, learn how to back up and restore the Content Store as a Cognos deployment. Also, learn the steps required to run the database clean up scripts for the Cognos Content store supported databases: IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL server 2005 an

(Robert Catterall) The last of my posts with items of information from the 2010 International DB2 Users Group North American Conference, held last month in Tampa (as in Tampa Bay), Florida.

(Keith McDonald) The db2top tool, on each of its various screens, presents a subset of the full capabilities of the DB2 snapshot monitor. In this post, we’ll see how you can use the native snapshot feature to gain access to the full snapshot.

(Keys Botzum) Security consists of more than just some firewalls at the edge of your network protecting you from the outside. It is a difficult and complex set of actions and procedures that strive to strengthen your systems as much as is appropriate. Part 1 of this two-part article discussed many a

(Craig S. Mullins) I get involved in Q+As in many ways, including at on-line discussion boards, blogs, e-mails, and so on. Sometimes I like to share some of the questions (and answers) from some of these.

(Dave Beulke) Actions speak louder than words. So if you want to be appreciated as a DBA, save your company big bucks and CPU resources.