(David Shirey) In the last tip, we finished looking at the Watson products (services) that you can tie into. Now it’s time to look at the APIs that IBM has for Watson and see how you can leverage them.

(Lockwood Lyon) These users typically start to appear once the big data application has matured. Perhaps the supported BI software does not meet their needs or is too difficult to use, or perhaps they have SQL expertise or lots of pre-coded SQL queries.

(Henrik Loeser) The title of this blog entry is how I have named a new presentation I am currently preparing. It hope that this tour will provide fun and many useful insights into understanding the Db2 catalog and make better use of it.

(Craig S. Mullins) A very common requirement for application developers is to be able to read through new data – from a table, a file or as entered by an end user – and either INSERT the data if it does not already exist or UPDATE data that does exist with new values.

(Ahmed Azraq, Mohamed Ewies and Ahmed E. Marzouk)This IBM Redbooks publication explains how to create various applications based on Node.js and run them on IBM Bluemix.

(Lockwood Lyon) It would seem that, from the point of view of a big data application user, performance means one thing: short elapsed times for business intelligence (BI) queries.

(Martin Westphal) Part 1 of this series presented 5 general use cases for the best ways to use the Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) for IBM Blueworks Live.

(Troy L Coleman) Terry Purcell, who leads the Db2 Optimizer team, recently told me that at least 80 percent of all SQL access path performance problems reported to IBM could be avoided if customers had collected proper runstats.

(Lockwood Lyon) Rolling out a new customer-facing application can be quite a challenge, considering the time it takes to develop and test the code. In addition, much time is taken on data modeling and database design, usually with multiple levels of operating systems, network and database profession

(Robert Catterall) In this second of a series of entries on my favorite SQL-related enhancements provided via Db2 12 for z/OS (and “Db2,” versus “DB2,” is officially the new form of the product name), I will describe useful functionality pertaining to result set pagination (my first post in this ser