(Jim Wankowski) Are you supporting DB2 on multiple platforms? The author covers the key architectural and administrative differences between DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows and DB2 for z/OS in this Quest white paper. (R)

(Willie Favero) This week I want to remind all of my friends moving to DB2 Version 8 that the DB2 Utilities use DFSORT, regardless of what sort product you might own. Because of this change it is imperative that you visit the two informational APARs available that discuss this new requirement and ex

(John Roling) Over the past couple of years, we all know the use of blogs on the Internet has skyrocketed. People have been creating personal web logs to discuss everything from politics, to technology, to what their favorite reality show contestant did last night. Until the past year, blogs have ge

(Dave Warner) So far, this series has covered the basics of storing and retrieving data in Apache Derby using SQL. This tutorial shows you how to use this knowledge in a straightforward way. In the previous tutorial, you developed a framework that allows you to store and manage Sarbanes-Oxley Act (S

(Paul McDougall) The flaw in one of the latest releases could allow local users to write to, or alter, any file on a company’s system.

(Willie Favero) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) touches everything today, including DB2. If you need to keep up with what’s happening with SOA and Data, I have a couple of IBM resources you should check out.

(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to embedded SQL programming and walks you through how to construct an embedded SQL application. This tutorial introduces the process for converting one or more high-level programming language source code files containing embedded SQL into an executable

(Paul Zikopoulos) Since the middle of 2006, I’ve been writing about all the great integration features in IBM DB2 9 for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and the accompanying ADO.NET 2.0 API.

(Robert J. Brunner) Learn how to modify an Apache Derby database from a Java program. This article builds on the previous two articles in this series to demonstrate how to create and drop tables as well as how to insert, update, and delete data in an Apache Derby database from within your Java appli

(Willie Favero) I was just cruising the online version of IDUG’s Solution Journal and came across a very well written article on a DB2 migration to Version 8… written from a customers point of view and written by that customer. Very cool… very well done.