(Daniel Hernandez) This year, the uptick in the volume and variety of data being created will set the stage for important organizational decisions.

(Kappelman Eric) So, you’ve made the plunge into the world of R language. Maybe you are coming from a STATA or SAS background, or perhaps you’re the Python type. Or, maybe your an Excel expert. Whatever your background, there are some things that you should know about the R programming language befo

(Carol) Can you remember the last time you put Netflix on and had to wait more than 30 seconds before you were having a healthy debate about whether it was going to be The Crown or Stranger Things tonight?

(Lockwood Lyon) Classic disaster recovery planning from the DBAs point of view consisted of making regular database backups and storing them off-site. If a disaster occurred, these backups could then be used to restore databases at a secondary site.

(Craig S. Mullins) I believe that enterprise software is too costly and, indeed, it would seem that many others agree with me or we wouldn’t see the explosion of open source software being adopted industry-wide these days.

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) You already know it’s possible to debug a service program by adding it to the Working with Modules window via F14 during the debug session, as I explained a few TechTips ago. What you might not know is that you can also do it directly from the STRDBG command.

(Troy L Coleman) Planet Mainframe recently provided a list of apps of interest to mainframe professionals.

(Jan Marek) In the last two parts we covered XPath and XQuery expressions. Both expressions are heavily used in DB2 SQL/XML functions. This part follows up the previous articles and is dedicated to SQL/XML functions.

(Craig S. Mullins) I recently received the following question and I think it is interesting enough to blog about.

(Mandy Chessell, Ferd Scheepers, Maryna Strelchuk, Ron van der Starre, Seth Dobrin and Daniel Hernandez) This IBM Redguide publication looks back on the key decisions that made the data lake successful and looks forward to the future.