Today's blog post is a short one. I was recently asked how to return a count of specific characters in a text string column. For examp...

Versions of DB2 exist for a large array of platforms, of which the mainframe (z/OS) is only one. Of course, it is my favorite one since I’v...

For those of you who use Twitter, make sure you are following me next week ( http://www.twitter.com/craigmullins ) as I will be tweeting my ...

If you have anything at all to do with computers or information technology, you have something to thank IBM for. Watch this video to find ou...

As is so often the case with my blog, today's topic came about as the result of an e-mail question I received from a DBA I know. His q...