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

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Accessing Partitioned Data

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One area that tends to confuse some DB2 developers until they gain experience is how DB2 partitioning works. A common question I get goes so...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

How are Indexes Being Used?

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In keeping with my promise to periodically post blog entries based on questions I have received, here we have another question I have been a...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

VARCHAR versus Compression

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A couple of days ago I posted a blurb giving advice on using variable character columns in DB2 . After thinking about the topic a little bit...
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Monday, August 21, 2006

IBM Mainframes - Not Just for Big Shops Any More

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Just a quick blog today to point you to an interesting article in the latest issue of IBM Systems Magazine - Mainframe Edition . The articl...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Advice on Using Variable Character Columns in DB2

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One of the long-standing, troubling questions in DB2-land is when to use VARCHAR versus CHAR. The high-level advice for when to use VARCHAR ...
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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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