This is a recording of the DB2 Chat with the Lab webinar held on July 16, 2009. (video)

(Paolo Bruni, Nisanti Mohanraj, Cristian Molaro, Yasuhiro Ohmori, Mark Rader and Rajesh Ramachandran) Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) is a set of protocols that permits multiple local and remote database systems and application programs, to work together. Any combination of relat

(Leon Katsnelson) Yesterday in a post about JRuby team leaving SUN and Oracle I mentioned that we on the IBM DB2 love Ruby on Rails. Those who attend Microsoft and IBM conferences may have seen us evangelizing DB2 support for Microsoft .NET development platform. I know it may come as a shock for man

(Serge Rielau) Last March at a Cebit presentation I held on DB2 9.7, I burned out a 110V computer loudspeaker that I had thoughtlessly hooked up to Germany’s 230V power grid without using a transformer. On that same trip, I also destroyed the charger for my electric toothbrush and my beard clipper i

Paola Lubet talks about importance of caching as the way to dramatically accelerate performance of databases and the role that SolidDB, IBM recently acquired database caching technology, plays in accelerating performance of DB2 databases. (video)

This video highlights some of the new features in DB2 9.7 that make it very easy to enable Oracle applications to DB2. It includes demos for features like support for PL/SQL, CLP Plus, and Optim Data Studio for data movement.

(Dave Beulke) As I talked about the last two weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new performance features. Many of these really stand out and in the coming weeks I will continue to write about some that can really help you reduce the CPU demand on your system and application environment

(Robert Catterall) Last week I taught an introduction to DB2 application development course at a large financial institution. That gave me the opportunity to share with the students some of my own experiences in the area of SQL programming. I’ll share one of these “school of hard knocks” experiences

(Werner Schuetz) Mergers and acquisitions, globalization, competitive pressures, and various other factors drive the need for companies to effectively leverage their information and gain more business value out of it. But often these business conditions offer a wide range of information-related chal

(Shahar Mor) How can I block the AS/400 DB2 users from changing data using WinSQL tool? (R)