(Whei-Jen Chen, Bill Comeau, Tomoko Ichikawa, S Sadish Kumar, Marcia Miskimen, H T Morgan, Larry Pay and Tapio Vaattanen) DB2 Workload Manager (WLM) introduces a significant evolution in the capabilities available to database administrators for controlling and monitoring executing work within DB2. T

(Chris Eaton) Today was the official opening of the 2008 IDUG North American conference here in Dallas. This is the 20th anniversary of the IDUG North American conference and it’s my 11th year speaking at this event.

(Venkatesh Gopal) This tutorial introduces IBM Data Studio and the IBM Data Studio Developer offering, and shows you how IBM Data Studio Developer can be used to develop applications with Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). (R)

(Paul Zikopoulos) In the first nine parts of this series, I’ve introduced you to some of the many features available within the IBM Data Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that’s available for use with the IBM data servers. Specifically, I’ve shown you how to set up database connection

(Ioana Ursu, Aakash Bordia and Eileen Lin) XML Federation in WebSphere Federation Server Version 9.5 allows you to seamlessly integrate with remote XML data from XML documents and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2) sources enabled with pureXML technology. Not only can you use the SQL/XML and XQu

(Andrew Ford) In version 10.0 of Informix Dynamic Server we were given the ability configure the page size of the data stored in a dbspace. For my Linux-based servers this means I have the option to store data and index pages on 2K, 4K, 6K, 8K, 10K, 12K, 14K and 16K pages instead of the previous opt

(Jake Miles) Develop a Facebook application using both PHP and Java programming languages. This tutorial gives you a first look at Facebook, and then steps you through the process for installing the components needed to create a Facebook application. Next, you’ll take a tour of Facebook with respect

One of the the database developers at a client site who is responsible for writing DB code across the three RDBMS that they support wanted a simple example of a stored procedure which returns the record set to the calling application for further processing. In this post, we will show you in brief e

(Paul Zikopoulos) Are you trying to ensure you’re licensing your IBM DB2 Version 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 9.5) data servers correctly in a high availability environment? Don’t have the time nor the will to read through the announcement letters, PLETs, or your licensing sheets? Author Pa

(Willie Favero) Now that we have discussed the cost of running various traces in DB2, determined that in many case the cost isn’t all that great, and in some cases it’s just something you have to absorb. Of course, knowing the cost up front may make it better when planning when to run a trace. It ha