(Willie Favero) You really need to try and make it out to the San Francisco DB2 User Group. They are holding their quarterly meeting on April 10, 2008. It should a terrific meeting. IBM will be supplying morning coffee, lunch, handouts, along with both terrific speakers.

(Chris Aniszczyk) Plug-in development in Eclipse is somewhat of an art form. If you’re new to the concept of plug-ins, especially in the context of OSGi and Eclipse, it can be a burden learning the myriad tools Eclipse has to help you write plug-ins. This article will help you learn some basic plug-

(Vijay Bommireddipalli, Matthias Nicola and Tom Tortolani) The emergence of XML-based industry standards (FIXML, FPML, ACORD, XBRL, and so on) has resulted in large volumes of transactional data in XML format. This data contains rich information about the characteristics and performance of the under

(Rob Williams) I received an email last night from someone who was trying to performance tune a Linux DB2 installation. He was concerned about receiving a large variance in his results, even though he was stopping and starting DB2 between runs.

(Raul F. Chong, Xiaomei Wang, Michael Dang and Dwaine R. Snow) Since the 1970s, when IBM Research invented the Relational Model and the Structured Query Language (SQL), IBM has developed a complete family of data servers. Development started on mainframe platforms such as Virtual Machine (VM), Virtu

(S. E Slack) If you’re not using business intelligence in your information architecture, you’re missing a key opportunity to help your organization stay ahead of the competition. Take steps to help your executives with decision making, strategic planning, and tactical responses to evolving business

(Rikki Kirzner) The growing popularity and advantages of Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) implementations are often accompanied by a continuous struggle to manage, and not lose control over, an ever increasing number of services and other reusable assets. As a result, organizations are plagued wi

(Troy Coleman) Sometimes developers need to retrieve data from a DB2 special register or invoke a DB2 built-in function against a program host variable. However, DB2 requires that a table be referenced in order to process these statements.

(Robert Catterall) The DBA I have in mind is DB2 itself – Version 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, to be specific (and for those of you who don’t know, IBM’s Toronto Lab is the home of DB2 for LUW).

(Tim Tow) I have been working for about a week on making our Dodeca product work on DB2. I finally got it done today. First let me explain a little about how Dodeca works to set the context for my post.