(Willie Favero) This article covers the basics of DB2 compression, including why sometimes you’re told to avoid compression, table space compression, and index compression. (pdf)

(Gopakumar Padmanabhan) This tutorial introduces IBM UniData and UniVerse (U2) MultiValue add-ins for Visual Studio (U2.NET), IBM’s new development tool for U2 MultiValue .NET applications. Develop a U2 MultiValue style master-detail application in C# in Visual Studio 2005. U2.NET’s Visual Studio in

(Tom McKinley) A good indexing strategy is the key to good performance. The performance gain indexes provide comes from the ability to identify rows of interest without having to scan all rows of the table on every search.

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) EnterpriseDB, the commercial enterprise that is providing support and services for the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system, announced this week that it has received its third round of venture capital funding, including some dough from IBM.

(Paolo Bruni, Sabine Kaschta, Marcel Kutsch, Glenn McGeoch, Marichu Scanlon and Jan Vandensande) This IBM Redbooks publication helps you design, install, manage, and tune stored procedures with DB2 9 for z/OS. Stored procedures can provide major benefits in the areas of application performance, code

(Peng Shi, James Lin and Dipayan Gangopadhyay) This is the first in a series of four articles that show you how to integrate FileNet Business Process Management with IBM Content Manager Version 8 (CM8). Leverage the best features of both FileNet and Content Manager by enabling BPM to use the IBM Con

(Willie Favero) I sometimes get a little carried away with what’s new and forget there is another DB2 floating around out. Today’s post is just such an example of overlooking some good stuff simply because it wasn’t DB2 9. The news by the way is both significant and important IMHO.

(Troy Coleman) When working on DB2 LUW, have you ever used the task scheduler to schedule utility work like runstats or image copies? If so, consider yourself special. Most z/OS DBAs probably haven’t used this feature, and even if they had, they’d be restricted from using it in the tightly controlle

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) As part of its price change announcements last week, IBM radically increased the prices it charges for various production PHP software for the OS/400 and i5/OS platform from Zend Technologies. The company also tweaked some prices up and down for the new DB2 Web Query databa

(Willie Favero) You’ve been hearing about it and reading about it for over a year now. In fact, there’s even a Redbook out that talks about it. It is Optimization Service Center (OSC), the DB2 9 replacement for Visual Explain plus much more… OSC is everything Visual Explain always dreamed it might