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IBM Data Studio is a no-charge product provided by IBM to allow users, developers and administrators to interact with databases from a client machine. IBM Data Studio may be used on a variety of platforms, read more...
There are two major challenges when it comes to SQL tuning. The first and most important is the quantity of SQL statements issued, and the second is the relative performance of each SQL statement. Ever read more...
How long has it been since you took a good look at your indexes? -- Photo by Stacy Brunner This month marks the second birthday for DB2 10.1 , which delivered an impressive set of new engine capabilities read more...
In every new release of DB2 for z/OS, performance improvements are made. How much someone benefits from these improvements varies, depending on the features you use, the type of workload you run and the read more...
DB2 10.5 is best known for BLU Acceleration, which is the new columnar store for tables. Organizing tables by column rather than row can lead to dramatic improvements in elapsed time for analytical queries. read more...
Introduction DB2 11 for z/OS became generally available in October 2013, and a huge amount of information is available on the many new features and functions (I’ll be writing a round-up blog entry read more...
Cutting SAP Down To (a Manageable) Size The DBA wouldn’t touch it as there are 83,000 tables in SAP. He was busy with other applications, and he had no time in dealing with a big package that was a mess. read more...
This month’s focus is “legacy migrations,” and in the next few weeks we will have a number of migration stories by customers and consultants. Be sure to regularly check in and find out how they handled read more...
Let me introduce you to the infrastructure of a project I've been working on recently: My development team is scattered over three continents My project e-mail is at Gmail Our project documents read more...
Several factors are combining to make it increasingly attractive for organisations to bring the worlds of System z and DB2 for LUW together. This two-part article examines these factors and the potential read more...
Ever since IBM introduced DB2/2 for its OS/2 operating system back in 1987, the DB2 community has been divided into two camps: those that mainly use DB2 for z/OS on IBM’s high-end System z mainframes, read more...
SQL is much more than a data access language. It is a full-fledged programming language. This means that any business or scientific question can be answered using SQL. There are no longer limits to the read more...