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

Monday, November 23, 2009

Reading Things That Aren't There... and Missing Things That Are!

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You can shoot yourself in the foot using DB2 if you are not careful. There are options that you can specify that may cause you to read data ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Replacing UNION with CASE

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When a UNION is required to put together data from multiple queries, you might be able to use a CASE statement instead. This is very useful,...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Deprecated Features Planned for DB2 X for z/OS

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Everyone is always interested in the latest and greatest features of their favorite DBMS, in this case DB2. But sometimes features get remov...
Monday, November 02, 2009

New DB2 Twitter List

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Just a very quick post this morning to let all you DB2 Twitter folks out there know that I created a list of the DB2 tweeters I know about a...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

IOD2009 Day Three – Malcolm Gladwell

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Today’s blog entry is a little late seeing as how this is Friday and IOD is over, but I’m writing about Wednesday morning’s keynote session ...
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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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