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

Thursday, August 22, 2013

NoSQL Gets Me Thinking About ACID

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This week I attended the NoSQL Now Conference in San Jose, California. This conference focused on NoSQL technology and implementations and a...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

The Top Ten DB2 Development Best Practices

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If you have been reading my blogs lately you know that I have been posting Top Ten lists of various types, and today's post offers up ye...
Monday, August 05, 2013

COPYTOCOPY: The Forgotten Little DB2 Utility?

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The COPYTOCOPY utility was introduced some time ago now, way back in DB2 for z/OS Version 7. The purpose of the COPYTOCOPY utility is to ma...
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...
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Craig S. Mullins
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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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