(Dave Beulke) Is it? Well, I know everyone is worried about the economy, but the best way to stay employed is to be proactive. Proactive is not that difficult it is just being extra helpful and providing extraordinary service.

(Willie Favero) My last post covered the Data Studio V2.1 and pureQuery announcement from last December. If you find Data Studio and/or pureQuery, here are a few more resources for you check out including a little thing that you Visual Explain user might be interested in.

(Kris Edwards) Can an SQL statement be written to delay for a period of time using recursion?

(Craig Mullins) Just a short blog entry today to remind everyone about the VOLATILE keyword. This keyword was added in DB2 Version 8 and it can be specified on a table using CREATE TABLE and/or ALTER TABLE statements.

(Patrick Bossman) There has been some question regarding what is IBM’s recommendation regarding REBINDs when customers migrate to DB2 9. Since we’re talking about REBIND, we’re referring to static SQL.

(Andrew J. Howes) This article shows you how to set up high-availability clusters in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) V6.1 or later. It shows you how to use a Deployment Environment pattern to configure a high-availability environment, including how to prepare the machines and how to

(Troy Coleman) I spent part of 2008 learning and blogging about XML support delivered in DB2 V9 for z/OS. Well, the learning process (as well as the blogging process) are on-going. Read two of my DB2utor blog entries here and here. This week I’m pleased to report that IBM is making life easier for X

(Robert Catterall) A few years ago, I put together a presentation in which I included a simplified diagram of an application system. It was an end-to-end depiction, with users (external to the application-owning organization) on the one side, the company’s IT infrastructure on the other side, and in

(Willie Favero) I think so. In fact, there is even an web site dedicated to just such a topic that includes a couple of demonstrations n how this can be accomplished.

(Craig Mullins) Business availability is more than just having a reliable hardware and database platform in place. Even the best high availability environment cannot safeguard itself from logical errors. Since most companies cannot afford downtime, it is important that the enterprise data on which t