(Michael L. Pauser) The IBM Data Studio solution includes many new features, among these is the Data Web Services support. Data Web Services is the next generation Web service provider for IBM database servers. Data Web Services provides a full Web service interface, that supports both REST-style (H

(Chris Falter) A few years ago I listened in fascination to a radio interview with a highway patrol officer who was describing how she conducted field sobriety tests. In addition to the typical tests of walking in a straight line and of standing on one foot, she would ask the erratic driver to reci

(Craig Mullins) I am posting today’s blog entry from Athens, Greece as I participate in the European IDUG conference. Good thing I know how to use the Blogger site because when I log in over here in Greece the text on their site is all converted into Greek – and as I’m sure comes as no surprise to a

(Robert Catterall) When it comes to DB2, I’ve often wondered just how far you can you take application availability (see my 2004 column “Taking High Availability Higher”). What’s the ultimate in terms of uptime and data loss protection?

(Joshua Greenbaum) One of the subplots that played out in the early days of Oracle’s acquisition spree was the IBM connection: There, inside the customer bases that Oracle acquired from PeopleSoft, JDE Edwards, Retek, Profitlogic, i-Flex, and Siebel was a whole lot of IBM technology: DB2 and Websphe

The DB2 Symposium is a multi-day training event. You have a daily choice of three full-day, in-depth seminars. All sessions are done by the best quality trainers in the DB2 market. You can join us for one, two, or three days. You only pay for what you find interesting! No waste of time or money. If

(Skip Marchesani) Subselect is the capability to embed up to 256 SQL SELECT statements inside a SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, or CREATE TABLE statement without having to do a join of the tables involved, which significantly enhances the power and function of these SQL statements.

Experience the combined power of DB2 Query Patroller and DB2 Performance Expert. To further improve data server performance, these complementary tools have been bundled together to form the Performance Optimization feature of DB2 9. The contents of this eKit will teach you how the DB2 9 Performance

Despite companies’ best efforts to keep intruders out of networks and sensitive systems, more than 70 percent of data breaches are carried out by employees. Label-based access control makes it possible to grant and restrict read and write access to individual rows and columns based on an employee’s

(Troy Coleman) In our look at DB2 certification exam 730, “DB2 9 Fundamentals,” we’ve previously reviewed the planning section, along with different editions of DB2 and the tools available. The final area within planning deals with data warehousing and business intelligence (BI).