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

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Happy Holidays 2021-2022

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 Just a quick blog post to wish everybody a very happy holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or some other holi...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes

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One of the constant struggles with Db2 development, and indeed developing for any relational DBMS, is designing and creating appropriate ind...
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Monday, December 06, 2021

A Systematic Approach to View Creation

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Historically, one of the most fertile grounds for disagreement between database professionals was the appropriate usage of views. Some analy...
Monday, November 22, 2021

"Unstructured " Data and LOBs

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Let's take a look at the burgeoning role of "unstructured" data and the impact of using LOBs to store that data in our Db2 dat...
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Monday, November 15, 2021

Db2, SQL, and Modern Coding Techniques

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  Mainframe application development has changed dramatically during the lifetime of Db2. Way back in the beginning, and even for a long time...
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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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