(Robert Catterall) Due to my having been very busy with a client engagement, I’ve let more time than usual go by since the last post to my blog. The aforementioned client job provided me with an interesting experience in the form of a Q&A session between one of the organization’s DB2 DBAs and a grou

(Willie Favero) This is third and last in the series of zMyth Buster posters. These will also all appear in the “System z on Campus” group on Facebook.

(Charles Babcock) Saturday June 7 was the 25th anniversary of DB2. Ingres and Oracle preceded it as commercial products by a narrow margin, but the launch of DB2 on June 7, 1983, marked the birth of relational database as a cornerstone for the enterprise.

(Adam Gartenberg) This may be old news for some of you, but I was just sent a link to this wiki page listing a dozen customer success stories of companies choosing IBM DB2 with pureXML, along with other pureXML news.

(Leon) It is a small improvement but for those of us who do not like to fill out forms it is an important one. Starting today, you no longer have to register for an IBM ID to download DB2 Express-C for free. Up until today if you wanted to download DB2 Express-C and you have not had an IBM ID […]

(Gene Cobb) In my previous TechTip, “Converting Legacy Date Fields to DB2 Web Query Dates, Part I,” I described how to use the powerful DB2 Web Query for IBM i built-in functions (BIFs) to convert your legacy date fields to “smart dates.” These smart dates are virtual columns stored in the metadata

(Lakshman Sakaray, Anju Sudhakar and Joel Hamill) The IBM Migration Toolkit (MTK) smooths the path for your migration from other relational database management systems (RDBMS) to IBM data servers. In Version 2.0 of the toolkit, you’ll find new migration paths for migrating from Microsoft SQL Server

(Roger Sanders) Brush up for certification by glancing through these sample questions. All questions are from the book DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification Study Guide, published by MC Press, and are reprinted with permission. Check back each week for more; brows

(Leon) This is a question I get asked quite often (twice this week) so I figured I may as well put the answer in to digital ink. If you ever worked with IBMers you probably know that our ready made answer is it depends. As much as I hate it I will not stray from this tradition. So, when asked […]

(Willie Favero) IBM is introducing three new licensed programs for data base and end-user environments. The combination of these three products offers new opportunities to extend the facilities of data base and query to an entire new set of users.