(Susan Visser) An IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator is the lead DBA for the DB2 products on one or more of the following platforms: Linux, UNIX (including AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris), and Windows. This individual has extensive experience as a DBA and extensive knowledge of DB2 9. This p

(Volker Fraenkle) If you need to archive your data for a long period of time, you must consider all the possible archiving techniques, and weigh their pros and cons. This article discusses the most common options for archiving your IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) data, and illustrates techniques t

(Vincent McBurney) Okay, so that title doesn’t make sense. Let me try again. IBM will resell Open Source MySQL Enterprise Database in competition with its own DB2 in order to increase the market presence of DB2.

(Tim McMackin) Learn how to build a simple dynamic Web site using Rational Business Developer Extension and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL). The site you build has two pages: one to display a list of records in a database and another to allow users to change the data in one of those records. Yo

(Susan Visser) If you are one of the many people who has earned an IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Certification… you’ll be happy to know that the upgrade exam is now available for you to take. You’ll only need to answer 38 questions and the price is

(Roger E. Sanders) We do a lot of database cloning as you described in your DB2 Magazine article. How do you reconcile cloning with data privacy and obfuscation requirements? Would you advocate changing the data after the restore process or as part of it, and if so how would you do it as part of the

MySQL AB and IBM announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.

(Paolo Bruni, Lucy Krantz, Frank Nikodem, Guenter Pfann and Marc White) A database administrator (DBA) has a challenging job trying to maintain databases in today’s nonstop 24×7 environments. This challenge is compounded by the complexity of database structures and the time pressure of trying to be

(Manoj Mohan, Ramesh Gopal Srinivasan and Thamizhchelvan A. Anbalagan) As existing authentication mechanisms evolve and newer authentication mechanisms come into existence, system-entry services (such as login, ftp, and rlogin) need to be continually customized to incorporate these changes. The Plug

(Edmon Begoli) DB2 9.2 is in many aspects a benchmark for a true XML-Relational database. Here is why I see it that way: –Seamlessness of the XML integration from the API perspective –Storage model –Performance