News, views, and items of interest on IBM's Db2 database management system and mainframes.
Monday, April 04, 2011
What About Surrogate Keys?
›
As is so often the case with my blog, today's topic came about as the result of an e-mail question I received from a DBA I know. His q...
2 comments:
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
DB2 Symposium 2011
›
Today's blog post is about a great symposium dedicated to the topic of DB2. It is called, appropriately enough, the DB2 Symposium . DB2 ...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Not Your Standard Sorting Requirement
›
Sometimes the requirements of a particular application dictate that data needs to be sorted using some irregular collating sequence. These o...
2 comments:
Thursday, February 10, 2011
View Naming Conventions
›
Naming conventions sometimes instigate conflict within the world of DB2, especially when it comes to views. But, really, it should be very ...
3 comments:
Thursday, February 03, 2011
TIMESTAMP versus DATE/TIME
›
Consider a database design decision point where you need to store both date and time information on a single row in DB2. Is it better to use...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version