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

Monday, September 14, 2015

Are You Heading to Las Vegas for IBM Insight?

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The IBM Insight conference is coming up and if you work with DB2, Big Data, analytics, data warehousing, or really, anything at all about e...
Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Mainframe Cost Optimization

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Modern businesses live in an age of financial austerity, cost containment and cutbacks. It is just a fact of life in many organiz...
Friday, September 04, 2015

Influencing the DB2 Optimizer: Part 7 - Miscellaneous Additional Considerations

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In this 7th, and final installment of this series on influencing the DB2 optimizer's access path choices, we will take a look at a coupl...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Influencing the DB2 Optimizer: Part 6 - Using Optimization Hints

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So far we have discussed several standard methods of influencing DB2’s access path selection -- in the first 4 parts of this series ( 1 , 2 ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Influencing the DB2 Optimizer: Part 5 - Changing DB2 Catalog Statistics

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When the standard methods of influencing DB2’s access path selection -- as discussed in the first 4 parts of this series   ( 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  ...
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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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