(Joe DeCarlo, Amintore de Nardis, Mark Duckworth, Jennifer Nelson and Adrian Simcock) This comprehensive suite of powerful yet easy-to-use tools helps developers efficiently build, test, and service applications while minimizing errors and increasing cost-effectiveness. The tools allow users to quic

(Jim Wankowski) In this white paper, expert Jim Wankowski explores the progression of DB2 application development over the last three decades. He covers DB2 programming trends and solutions for maximum application performance in today’s development environment. (R)

(Roger Miller) Have you heard Willie Nelson sing, “On the Road Again?” I can’t remember the words exactly, but country music does not depend upon the exact tune or the exact words. The words I use are, “On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again, talking DB2 with my friends. I just

(Knut Stolze) Visualizing spatial and geometric data stored and managed in DB2 databases is often crucial for users to understand the data itself. Jointly with ESRI, IBM provides the no-charge ArcExplorer for such tasks. Learn how to setup and use ArcExplorer on various platforms. The data to be dis

(Omer Brandis) In this post i’d like to tell you a bit about an interesting tool I’ve been working with lately. This tool is called DPT, its developed by Log-on software, which is located in ISRAEL.

(Chris Eaton) A year ago, IBM delivered DB2 Express-C with the tag line free to build, deploy, distribute. That’s was pretty cool to have a free version of DB2 that includes pureXML and is the same codebase that you get with DB2 Enterprise for Linux and Windows. I really think the best thing here is

(Chris Gruber) The news of the yearly subscription opens new business models for DB2. DB2 Express-C is a free database without any limits in database size. I could go on and on about how many free database offerings limit your deployments, but I won’t.

(Vikram Desai and Tom McManus) This article takes an in-depth look at fault handling within a business process, to provide a clearer understanding of business process faults and their handling. We explain how a fault is classified, when it can occur (from business related to system failure), and wha

Officials at IBM are throwing verbal haymakers at Oracle as Big Blue touts its successes in the database market.

(Leon Katsnelson) We all like to get stuff for free. Not paying for something leaves money to spend on something else. So, when you come across something that is free it is hard to say “no”; the non-free alternative has to have a lot of value to win over “free”. But what if you have a choice of “fre