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

Monday, March 30, 2009

Today's Modern Mainframe

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IBM mainframes process two thirds of the world’s business information every day, and have been doing so for decades, because of the many str...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Cost vs. Advantage of Moving From IMS DB to DB2

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As my regular readers know, every now and then I like to share Q+A exchanges I've had with folks. Today, the question I was asked is as ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

A Short Introduction to Lock Avoidance

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Lock avoidance is a mechanism employed by DB2 for z/OS to access data without locking while still maintaining data integrity. It prohibits a...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Attend the 2009 IDUG North American Conference (at a Discount)

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Today's blog post is just a friendly reminder to the DB2 community that the North American IDUG conference is fast approaching. This ye...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

A Twittering You Will Go?

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This week, a thread was started on the DB2-L list server about Twitter , the micro-messaging Web 2.0 social networking tool. Basically, som...
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Craig S. Mullins
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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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