(Nagraj Alur, Hennie Mynhardt, Gregg Palmer and Alicia Wangelien) This redbook documents the main features of Recovery Expert for z/OS, and describes its architecture and processing flow. Using typical user scenarios, this redbook provides a step-by-step approach to recover database objects safely,

(Stephen B. Morris) This two-part series addresses the importance of the automated management of Apache Derby databases using (as an example) IBM autonomic computing touchpoint technology and Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM). This article, Part 1, introduces the growing need for automated

(Jean Georges Perrin) I can’t believe the conference is already over. It has been a dense week of learning, teaching and extending networks. That’s why I decided to skip a few sessions today. It gave me some time to enjoy a sausage at the kiosk in front of the conference center with Stuart Litel, II

(Willie Favero) It’s nice to know that someone does actually read my post. I know because 1) I get some very nice comments when I speak at different events (Thank you all), and 2) I have received a couple of private e-mails with a few questions (and concerns) about using optimization hints. Question

(Chris Eaton) There are many instances where you may want to create a temporary table of data just to perform some lookups and then throw it away. For example, what if we want to create a table of weekdays to join with our shipment table. Or maybe we want to classify rows in an orders table by some

(Willie Favero) This post is about a cool addition and something missin’. And they both have to do with optimization hints. Anyone who has caught my presentation about DSNZPARMs knows that I think optimization hints feature in DB2 is a very cool feature. For those of you unfamiliar with optimization

(Joachim Stumpf) This article gives an overview and description of how to set up IBM Cloudscape, the IBM version of Apache Derby, as a mobile database using DB2 Everyplace as the synchronization engine for various back-end systems. IBM Cloudscape is a commercial release of the open source Apache Der

(Anson Kokkat) IBM DB2 9 enables you to use the power of pureXML and integrate it into your application development environment. Take a look at how to integrate this powerful technology into your Java applications and make development easier with the new DB2 Developer Workbench.

(Willie Favero) This is a question that I hear quite a bit, although the frequency is dropping off a bit.

(Guy F. Bowerman) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) user-defined routines (UDRs) can be written in C, Java, and Stored Procedure Language (SPL). A recently documented extension to Java UDR support – codenamed Solano – is the ability to host a Java application service, such as an HTTP server, directl