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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Index Compression [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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Another useful new feature debuting in V9 is the ability to compress indexes. We’ve been able to compress DB2 data in table spaces for a lon...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

CLONE Tables [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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This new feature in DB2 V9 might sound like an old monster movie ( Invasion of the Clone Tables!!! ), but it is actually a nifty new capabil...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

New Data Types [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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As we continue our blog series on the new features and functionality of DB2 9 for z/OS, today we examine the four (OK, five) new data types ...
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Monday, July 09, 2007

New Built-in Functions [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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DB2 9 for z/OS introduces a bevy of new built-in functions (BIFs) for programmers to use in their SQL statements. It is important to keep tr...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Implicitly Created Database Objects [DB2 9 for z/OS]

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Today we continue our series on new features in DB2 V9 with a quick discussion of implicitly created database objects. To understand what th...
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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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