Information is everywhere. Delivering the right information to the decision makers at the right time is critical to achieving business results. Information can reside in existing relational databases, Web services, or within files. The nature of information is changing as more and more information i

(Tony Lau and Meng Fu) Testing is expensive. In J2EE performance testing, a tremendous amount of time and effort have been spent setting up the System Under Test (SUT) and workload driver. In order to address today’s business needs, an e-business system always consists of a hetergenous cluster of se

(Paolo Bruni and John Iczkovits) Disk storage has changed rapidly over the past few years with the delivery of new functions and improved performance. DB2 has made many changes to keep pace and make use of the disk improvements. (pdf)

(Robert Brunner) The previous article in this series, Developing with Apache Derby — Hitting the Trifecta: Database development with Apache Derby, Part 3: Running scripts and inserting data, ended by running a script that inserted ten rows and then displayed these rows for validation. That article

(Sunil Kamath and Punit Shah) For a variety of reasons, most modern operating systems run programs in virtual address space. The virtual address offers many advantages, including flexibility, isolation, transportability, the ability to access more memory than the amount of physical memory, and to so

(Lisa Vaas) Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBM’s DB2 database.

(Matthias Nicola and Fatma Ozcan) The pure XML support in DB2 offers efficient and versatile capabilities for managing your XML data. DB2 stores and processes XML in its inherent hierarchical format, avoiding the performance and flexibility limitations that occur when XML is stored as text in CLOBs

(Michael L. Gonzales) For years, organizations have invested in data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) environments in search of actionable insight — the promise of any BI system. But for many, this promise remains an illusion. That’s because BI, in and of itself, is never enough.

(Janet Lee) An enterprise search system provides extensive capabilities for searching any number of structured and unstructured data sources with a single point of access. The search components installed with WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition (OmniFind) can collect diverse enterprise

(Allan W. Tham) This article serves as a skill transfer for existing MySQL database administrators to learn about DB2 Express-C edition for backup and recovery. You may already be familiar with the way databases are backed up and restored in MySQL; this article highlights the features and functions