(Chuck Ballard, Jacques Roy, Rosario Annino, Alan Caldera, Sergio Dias, Vinayak Shenoi, Santosh Sajip, Robert Uleman and Suma Vinod) In this IBM Redbooks publication, we provide an overview of some of the capabilities of version 11 of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), referred to as IDS 11, tha

(David Beulke) On the Internet, competition is just a click away. A delay in returning information to users can mean lost business. That’s why applications must have performance considerations designed in from the start.

(George Baklarz and Paul C. Zikopoulos) In this chapter you will be introduced to the DB2 family of products that run on the Linux, UNIX, and Windows operating systems. This version of DB2 is often referred to as the distributed version to differentiate it from the DB2 for z/OS version that runs on

(Willie Favero) Yesterday I posted about a few DB2 functions that are being depricated in DB2 9. I made a comment that I should ask you all about BookManager. Well, here is that question… plus a couple others that I have been asking for a few months now.

(Whei-Jen Chen, Christian Hideaki Kondo, Helmut Riegler, Lifang LF Liu and Veiko Spranger) Linux is one of the fastest growing server operating platforms within the past few years. DB2 has long been known for its technology leadership. This IBM Redbooks publication is an informative guide that descr

(Radhesh Kumar) Past few months my personal time with DB2 community was encroached by excessive customer engagements. Hence, no blog post for a long time. I am afraid that it may continue like this for a while. However, these customer engagements did bring me in direct contact with many DBAs in the

(Willie Favero) “Deprecated” is such a great word. Have you lever looked it up in a dictionary? Try it sometime; you’ll find most of its meaning very entertaining when you apply them to DB2. But I’ve gone have on a terrible tangent. “Deprecated” as used by IBM and this blog entry simply refer to fea

(Chipei Michael Hsing) pureQuery is IBM’s new platform within Data Studio for developing Java database access applications. Its simple API and integrated tooling make data access developers more productive and encourages coding best practices for improved performance. Spring is an open source Java/J

(Willie Favero) If you are within driving distance of Austin, TX you may want to consider attending their next DB2 User Group meeting. HOTDUG, the Heart of Texas DB2 User Group, is having their next meeting at the IBM location in Austin. This should be an exceptional meeting. Not because I’m speakin

(Jens Seifert) Since Version 8.1, IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has had a compression feature called value compression. This feature is not well-known, but it provides a cost-efficient way to reduce the size of your database with almost no impact on performance. In this article, find backgrou