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

Monday, April 21, 2014

A Little Bit About LOBs

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In today's blog post we will take a brief look at LOBs, or Large OBjects, in DB2. I have been prepping for my webinar later this week, ...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Aggregating Aggregates Using Nested Table Expressions

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Sometimes when you are writing your SQL to access data you come across the need to work with aggregates. Fortunately, SQL offers many sim...
Sunday, April 06, 2014

DB2 Buffer Pool Monitoring

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After setting up your buffer pools, you will want to regularly monitor your configuration for performance. The most rudimentary way of doin...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

DB2 Buffer Pool Sizing

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Sizing DB2 buffer pools can be a time-consuming and arduous process. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts on the matter...    DB2...
Friday, March 21, 2014

DB2 Tool Requirements

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The last blog post here at the DB2 Portal offered up a brief overview of the types of tools that you might want to consider to help you us...
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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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