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

Monday, April 30, 2007

Database Definition on Demand [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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As you probably know, online schema evolution (sometimes referred to as “online schema change”) was one of the key new features of DB2 V8. B...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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Another nice new SQL feature provides the ability to SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE statements. This capability is similar to the SEL...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Free DB2 Access Paths Webinar - April 18, 2007

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Just a quick note to inform my readers that I will be conducting a webinar tomorrow - Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - on the topic of Change Con...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

MERGE and TRUNCATE [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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Two additional new SQL statements available in DB2 Version 9 are the MERGE and TRUNCATE statements. MERGE The MERGE statement basically take...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

New DB2 9 Security Redbook

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Just a quick entry today to alert everyone that there is a new DB2 for z/OS redbook available on the topics of regulatory compliance, securi...
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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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