(Craig S. Mullins) Db2 12 offers many performance improvements that can help you to speed up your applications. The Fast Insert algorithm, also called Insert Algorithm 2, is one such improvement, but you have to understand what it is and when it can be helpful.

(John Ghrist) One of the core assets of IBM’s entire Watson program is the ability to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sort through masses of data to come up quickly with insights it could take a human mind much longer to perceive.

(Troy L Coleman) This is my fourth installment in a series detailing the history of Db2 compression. As is the case with all previous releases, the Db2 engine takes advantage of the z System hardware platform in Db2 Version 11 for z/OS. With Db2 11 and zEC12 hardware, compression overhead was reduce

(Matthias Nicola) Database services in the cloud are gaining increasing popularity for development, test, and production systems. One of the key technical challenges for cloud database adoption is fast and secure movement of large data volumes into the cloud.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! The new IBM Data Server Gateway for OData is a standards-based way for customers to leverage Db2 in modern Cloud and Mobile application development environments without requiring database drivers on the client. This show described what OData is, how it

(Shirley deJonk and Fabio Tiozzo) This document introduces IBM Decision Optimization to a data science audience. The goals are to identify possible uses of IBM Decision Optimization in data science projects and demonstrate where additional value can be captured by adding an optimization step.

(Troy L Coleman) My backgrounder on compression continues with Db2 for z/OS Version 10. This release brought compression support to SMF trace data and provided an availability option to activate data compression without placing the table space in REORG pending.

(Lockwood Lyon) As many enterprise applications mature, the increases in customers, functions, features and transaction rates require scaling up. Several alternatives for maintaining acceptable performance include installing or upgrading hardware resources such as CPU speeds, disk volume and compute

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Steen described the Db2 12 catalog changes abd their role in support new and improved Db2 features.

(Steve Pitcher) It was Friday morning at ABC Widget Manufacturing Company, and things were business as usual. The machines were humming, and the accountants were accounting. Everyone was typing away at their green-screen terminals with thoughts of a wonderful weekend ahead.