The Db2 Portal Blog

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

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Time to Start Your IDUG in Philadelphia Planning

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Spring is in the air... well, at least it is South of the Mason-Dixon line... and that means it is time to plan your trip to this year'...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

SQL Performance Basics: Part 2, Rely on Indexes

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Perhaps the single most important aspect of SQL tuning is indexing. All developers should know all of the indexes that exist on any table up...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

SQL Performance Basics: Ask For Only What You Need

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As you write SQL statements to access DB2 data, there are certain very simple, yet important rules to follow to encourage efficient SQL. Of...
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...
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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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