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

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

IBM Announces DB2 10 for z/OS Beta Program

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IBM announced the beta program for the next version of DB2 today, now "officially" known as DB2 10 (no more DB2 X). It is a closed...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

IBM Manages the Data Lifecycle

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Data lifecycle is a somewhat new-ish term, at least in terms of what I plan to talk about in this blog posting. The data lifecycle – and dat...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Larry Sure Knows How to Get Press

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Going under the assumption (I assume) that no press is bad press, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has attacked IBM's DB2... but he made several...
Monday, February 01, 2010

Some New Year's Resolutions for DBAs

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This is sort of a re-blogging (to coin a term). I first published this last month in the Data Management Today blog I wrote for NEON. Wel...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Which is better? "BETWEEN" vs "<=" and >"="

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This was a recent topic on the DB2-L mailing list so I thought I'd weigh in with my two cents worth on the topic. As with most DB2 (and...
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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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