Let's go back in time... over three decades ago... back to the wild and woolly 1980s! And watch our favorite DBMS, DB2, grow up over t...

If you're anything like me, you're constantly looking for DB2 Catalog table and column names. For writing catalog queries, for exami...

Today’s blog entry is a continuation of yesterday’s post in which we began a brief review of the history of DB2 for z/OS. That post covered ...

Just a short blog entry today to remind everyone about the VOLATILE keyword. This keyword was added in DB2 Version 8 and it can be specified...

Are you making plans to migrate to a new version of DB2? Do you know what impact the access changes for dynamic SQL will have on performance...

DB2 V9 offers some encryption news, but we need to go back a version to start the story. You see, DB2 supports encryption in Version 8 throu...

Just a quick note this morning to let folks in Zurich, Switzerland and London, UK know about a three-day performance workshop for DB2 V8 com...