(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU0905 is now complete. It contains all service not already marked RSU along with PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through April 2009.

(Charles Ezzell) In my previous entry, I covered testing SQL queries using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 using a linked server, but many customers really need to test performance over SSIS, when moving data from DB2 to SQL Server.

(Charles Ezzell) In my previous entry, I covered testing SQL queries using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 using a linked server, but many customers really need to test performance over SSIS, when moving data from DB2 to SQL Server.

(Antonio Cangiano) Counting rows is an ubiquitous operation on the web, so much so that it’s often overused. Regardless of misuse, there is no denying that the performance of counting operations has an impact on most applications. In this post I’ll discuss my findings about the performance of DB2 9.

(Henrik Loeser) When you start working with XML in the database, one of your first statements after creating a table with an XML column typically is to insert the “Hello World” test:

(Peng Tang, Lei Zhang, Jing Feng Zhang, Yan Jun Mo and Wei Wang) In the previous three articles of this series, we gave an overview for the WebSphere Business Service Fabric 6.1 and used business analysis to define WBSF artifacts that meet business goals. We then discussed the details of fabric deve

(Willie Favero) Hold on the your chairs; this is one extremely fascinating video, and I’m a z/OS guy the spends little time on DB2 LUW. Scott Hayes took an untuned DB2 LUW system and using monitoring tools, measure it’s power consumption at idle. He then added user and workload. As the load increase

(Vikram Khatri) This is by no means an exhaustive list of new features in DB2 9.7. But, it is the list of features that are most important to me as a DBA or a developer.

(Bob Scheier) Mention Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and most DBAs think of a fast, reliable, and low-maintenance platform for online transaction processing (OLTP). But those transactions hold valuable insights into business trends, leading many organizations to also use IDS as a data warehouse again

(Dave Beulke) Also at this year’s IDUG conference, Cobra DB2 9.7 was discussed with its many great new features. I experienced a number of these enhancements as I went through the DB2 Cobra beta program with IBM. Now that IBM has officially announced DB2 9.7, I can happily talk about it. Two of the