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News, views, and items of interest on IBM's Db2 database management system and mainframes.

Friday, April 28, 2006

System z9 Business Class Mainframe Getting Positive Press

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It looks like IBM's new low-cost z9 mainframe is getting some positive press. It always does my heart good to see the mainframe in the I...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Using Nulls in DB2

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A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. If a column “value” can be null, it can mean one of two things: the at...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Mainframe Alive at Merrill Lynch

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A recent article in Baseline Magazine highlights how Merrill Lynch & Company reinvigorated 420 financial programs stored on the mainfram...
Friday, March 31, 2006

DSNTIAD - The Dynamic SQL Update Program

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In my last blog entry I posted about DSNTEP2, the batch SQL program. But there is another batch SQL program named DSNTIAD that is less widel...
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Friday, March 24, 2006

DSNTEP2 aka Batch SPUFI

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DSNTEP2 is an application program that can be used to issue DB2 dynamic SQL statements. It is sometimes referred to as “Batch SPUFI” because...
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Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist, researcher, and consultant. He is president and principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc. and the publisher/editor for The Database Site.

Craig has been named by IBM as a Gold Consultant and an IBM Champion for Analytics. He has been named as one of the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Analytics by AnalyticsWeek magazine.

Craig has over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development and has worked with Db2 since V1. You may know Craig from his popular books: Db2 Developer's Guide (covering IBM's mainframe RDBMS)... A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers (how to write efficient Db2 programs) and... Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures (a guide to heterogenous DBA).
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