(Roger Sanders) Keep up your certification preparation with this new set of sample questions, which originally appeared in the book DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification Study Guide, published by MC Press. All questions are reprinted with permission. Check back ea

(Chris Eaton) Half way through the conference and it was another full day here in Dallas. The morning started off with a keynote by Craig Fowler, author of My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book). He had some very interesting insights. The first was that you should treat your career

(Robert Catterall) Howdy, folks. I’m posting today from Dallas, Texas, site of the 2008 IDUG North American Conference (IDUG is the International DB2 Users Group). I’ve had the opportunity here to participate in some extensive discussions about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), one of my favorite

(Indrani Ghatare) Do you need real-time access to data residing in diverse data sources? Learn how to utilize the change data capture (CDC) technology of DataMirror Transformation Server for streaming data changes captured by IBM DataMirror into IBM WebSphere DataStage using the DataMirrorCDC staget

(Scott Salisbury) Lots of books and training materials are available for Java and PHP, but the best education is seeing these languages as they interact with your own data. When developers decide to learn a new language, one of the first questions that occur to them is along the lines of, “How do I

(Chris Eaton) Today was another full day here at the IDUG North America conference in Dallas. There was a lot more networking for me today talking with many DB2 customers.

(Howard Fosdick) Certification has arrived, no question. But as a DB2 professional, should you certify? Will it increase your abilities or help your career? How can you do it quickly and inexpensively? That last thought is key — knowing the inside story on DB2 certification before you proceed will

(Scott Hayes) It’s said that there is more than one way to skin a cat, meaning there are multiple ways to accomplish the same objective. As for the saying, I don’t think this is very kind to cats even though I prefer dogs. The prior blog post discussed making adjustments to CHNGPGS_THRESH to reduce,

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(Troy Coleman) This is the third in a three-part series on writing efficient SQL. Initially we reviewed concepts and terms that are used to explain how DB2 filters and retrieves rows of data based on different types of predicates. You also received some general rules for coding efficient SQL.