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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Implicitly Hidden Columns [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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Another nice new feature deep in the bowels of DB2 9 for z/OS is the ability to hide columns from the SELECT * statement. As far back as any...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Index on Expressions [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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DB2 9 for z/OS offers, for the first time, the ability to create an index on data that is not technically in the table. At this point, you m...
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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...
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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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