This paper, authored by analyst Philip Howard of Bloor Research, examines the major new features of DB2 9 not only in business terms but with an explanation of how the various technologies work, and where they differ from that of IBM’s competitors in order to understand how these business benefits a

(Noel Rappin) In the last two articles in this series, you’ve discovered how to create a simple Web application using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and the Apache Derby relational database. Part 1 focused on using GWT to build the front end for a pizza delivery system called Slicr. In Part 2, you got

(Chris Eaton) Oracle recently published a report that claims they are easier to use compared to DB2 or SQL Server. What a joke. After reading the IBM response it’s pretty clear that this report is even worse then previous studies Oracle commissioned. It’s also clear from the IBM response that Oracle

(Margaret Myslinska, Andrew Nere, David Swenson, Gloria Velazquez, Kathryn Lamont and David Peraza) Compare PHP with the Net.Data server-side scripting language, which IBM develops with DB2. Understand the origins of the languages, their syntax differences, usage learning curves, database connection

(Willie Favero) You’ve heard about the rebalance feature in DB2 Version 8 and now you would like more information about how to use it and how it works. Well, your answers can be found in the most recent issue of z/Journal Magazine. In the December/January 2007 issue distributed at SHARE this week i

(David Toussaint) This IBM Redpaper documents an installation and configuration of IBM Tivoli System Automation on IBM AIX to provide high availability for a DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU). It provides the information that is needed to enable high availability quickly

(Susan Visser) Mark your calendar for this upcoming chat, taking place Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007, 1 PM Eastern, 12 noon Central, 10 AM Pacific.

IBM XQuery Whiteboard for DB2 is a graphical tool that extends the XQuery capabilities in IBM DB2 Version 9.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. A user can enter an XQuery expression and see the result after it has been executed. The XQuery expression can refer to information in the database, in local do

(Paul Zikopoulos) In Part A of this series, I showed you how to use the Crystal Report features that come as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) with data that resides on an IBM DB2 9 data server. However, that article concluded with a reporting object i

(David) Today I have stumbled upon this great little free tool called “DB2 Monitor”.