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Friday, February 27, 2015
A Few DB2 Connect Guidelines
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Here are a few guidelines for you to consider as you work to implement and optimize your usage of IBM's DB2 Connect gateway... Co...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Choosing Between DECIMAL and FLOAT Data Types
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DB2 can use both DECIMAL and FLOAT data types to store non-integer numeric data. But the two are not equivalent. In general, use DECIMAL in...
Monday, February 09, 2015
Nulls Cannot Be Ignored!
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NULLs are one of the more controversial things that a DB2 professional has to deal with. And I do mean HAS to deal with. Because o...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Helping Out the DB2 Optimizer Using the VOLATILE Keyword
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Do you know about the VOLATILE keyword? This keyword was added to DB2 for z/OS back in Version 8. It can be specified on a table using eith...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Approaches to DB2 Access Path Management
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BIND and REBIND are crucially important components as you attempt to assure efficient DB2 applications. Because the BIND/REBIND process d...
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