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

Monday, February 21, 2011

Not Your Standard Sorting Requirement

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Sometimes the requirements of a particular application dictate that data needs to be sorted using some irregular collating sequence. These o...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

View Naming Conventions

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Naming conventions sometimes instigate conflict within the world of DB2, especially when it comes to views. But, really, it should be very ...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

TIMESTAMP versus DATE/TIME

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Consider a database design decision point where you need to store both date and time information on a single row in DB2. Is it better to use...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

More Indicator Variables Available in DB2 10 for z/OS

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As you all should know by now, version 10 of DB2 doe z/OS is generally available and has been for a month or so now. As such, it is probably...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

IBM Information On Demand 2010 - The Final Keynote

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The keynote session for the third day of the IOD conference features the authors of Freakonomics , Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. I...
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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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