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

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Compression Becoming More Important in the Age of Big Data

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DBAs and database professionals have been aware of the pros and cons of compressing data for years. The traditional argument goes something...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Top Ten Most Common DB2 Performance Problems

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PEBCAK  The number one cause of DB2 performance problems today, as always, is  Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard !   Poorly coded...
Friday, July 19, 2013

DB2 Locking, Part 17: In Conclusion

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Today's blog post concludes our multi-part series on DB2 for z/OS locking and concurrency. We have touched on a great many aspects of lo...
Monday, July 15, 2013

DB2 Locking, Part 16: Skipping Uncommitted Inserts

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DB2 10 for z/OS introduces a new technique for concurrency. As we have discussed previously in this series on DB2 locking, one of the most ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

DB2 Locking, Part 15: Tackling Timeout Troubles

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Many shops battle with locking issues and frequently, the cause of performance issues can be traced back to locking issues, more specifical...
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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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