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

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Plan to Attend IDUG This November to Improve Your DB2 Skills

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It is almost that time of year again, time for the annual European IDUG conference. And as anyone who has ever attended this conference ...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Do You Still Use That DB2 Program?

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A recurring problem for programmers and IT folks in general is determining whether or not a particular program is still required. As you...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Bad Database Standards

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Today's blog post is a metapost, of sorts. I am using my DB2 blog to point you to a series of posts I made in my other blog ( Data and T...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Updating DB2 Developer's Guide (6th edition)

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Just a brief blog post today to inform regular readers who might be concerned that I have not been blogging as frequently as in the past. I ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

The PIECESIZE Clause

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One of the more troubling aspects of DB2 database design and creation is the non-partitioning index (NPI). Creating NPIs on tables in a par...
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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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