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

Friday, April 30, 2010

On Becoming a DBA

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Perhaps the most frequent question I am asked is: How can I become a DBA? The answer, of course, depends a lot on what you are currently doi...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Ever-Changing Role of the DBA

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Defining the job of DBA is getting to be increasingly difficult. Oh, most people know the rudimentary aspects of the job, namely keeping you...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Nominate Someone for the CA IDUG Award for Outstanding Work in DB2

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As many of you know, each year CA sponsors an award at IDUG to honor outstanding work with DB2. The only requirement for the award is that...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What is Production Data?

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I received an interesting e-mail recently that made me stop and think a bit... so I thought I'd blog about it. Basically, the e-mail po...
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Mainframes: The Safe IT Career Choice

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A recent Computerworld article ( Bank of America touts mainframe work as a safe career ) touts the mainframe as a safe haven for those cons...
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Craig S. Mullins
Sugar Land, Texas, United States
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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