(Andrew Ford) I promised a follow up to the oncmsm setup but I’ve been sidetracked with a recent adventure in setting up Enterprise Replication for a large and very active table. For reasons that I still don’t understand, the ‘cdr check’ and ‘cdr sync’ ER utilities that I would normally use to make

(Charles Babcock) Oracle is upgrading its Audit Vault product in a bid to have it serve as an audit information center for several competing enterprise database systems.

(Alice Ma) I work with LOTS of customers who use or want to use DB2 Performance Expert for LUW. The first question I get asked usually has to do with the basic architecture – what pieces run where and on what platform?

(Dave Beulke) The trail for the hunter of performance problems leads from the table to the indexes. As I went deeper into this performance jungle, I discovered more interesting artifacts.

(Troy Coleman) Over the past 20 years I’ve had many roles working with DB2. For a few years I worked as the only DB2 systems programmer at a small company. If we had a problem, I was the one who had to fix it.

(Philip Norton and Alex Wood) The WebSphere MQ binding provided with WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Process Server allows communication between native MQ applications and a Service Component Architecture (SCA) environment. The WebSphere MQ bindings make receiving and sending MQ messages simple, but som

(Guogen (Gene) Zhang) We all know the benefits of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). One of the benefits is to revitalize and enable existing applications or functionality as components to participate in new applications, extending the life and value of "legacy" applications. To m

(Robert Catterall) As a member of IBM’s DB2 National Technical Support team in the 1990s, I worked with data sharing technology before DB2 Version 4 (which introduced the feature) was generally available. An important part of my job at the time was to boost people’s understanding of data sharing, an

(Roger Sanders) For anyone who is using the weekend to study for the DB2 9 DBA certification exam, here’s the latest sample question to try.

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