(Kim May) While there are many indications the “Great Recession” is over, the budget lag and fear of one last dip seems to be constraining IT project funding – EXCEPT – of all places, training.

(Craig Mullins) As usual, the North American IDUG conference is proving to be a hectic, yet enjoyable and informative time. The days are packed from morning til evening with technical sessions, networking, and running from here to there and back again.

(Walter M. Jenny) Besides the traditional Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) interface, the Java Messaging Service (JMS) API, the REST interface, and the Web service API are relatively recent additions. The pros and cons of those APIs are discussed in comparison of the programming interfaces for interacting

(Keith McDonald) In a DB2 for LUW database that makes use of the data partitioning feature available in the Infosphere Warehouse product, one of the new concerns a database administrator is faced with is skew among the partitions. Adding or removing partitions from a database introduces skew and req

(Antonio Cangiano) This is a tiny post to let you know that IBM just released version 2.5.0 of the IBM_DB gem with support for the upcoming Rails 3. That’s what I call both proactive and a true testament of IBM’s commitment towards DB2 on Rails.

(Julian Stuhler) We’ve all done it. You see a great new feature in DB2 and jump headlong into using it without fully appreciating all of the implications. Here’s a case in point:

(Keith McDonald) The db2top Bottlenecks screen lets us see who the biggest consumers of each resource are and how much of the resource they are consuming. These top consumers can often cause such resources to become bottlenecked, so the Bottlenecks screen gives you an easy way to find the cause of s

(Dhanashri Kudgavkar and Prasanna Alur Mathada) Part 1 of this series introduced both Informix Dynamic Server and Optim. It showed how to configure the IDS server and IDS client for Optim on both the Microsoft Windows and the Linux (or UNIX) environments. In addition, it stepped you through the conf

(Dave Beulke) With DB2 10 coming out and the IDUG North American Conference this week, there should be another great opportunity for further information about the new release.

(Troy Coleman) Last week I noted the need for DB2 defined referential integrity (RI) and how performance problems occur if you don’t create the index that would support the child foreign key relationship. (The relationship information can be found in the DB2 catalog.)