Congratulations to Judy Nall whose first book is about to publish.  The book goes to the printer today! DB2 9 System Administration for z/OS: Certification Study Guide: Exam 737 by Judy Nall This is an addition to the series of Certification... 0 1 186

Canada Day is tomorrow and it seems that everyone is already on vacation!  The office is incredibly quiet and I'm not getting much mail.   This weekend is Independance Day in the US... and I'm looking forward to being in NYC for this celebration.   All the... 0 0 166

25 June - our Season 1 FINALE - YOU REQUESTED IT!!!   Berni Schiefer RETURNS to talk about DB2 LUW Storage Optimization and Best Practices. He will be joined by his peer Robin Grosman who is the manager of BPS development. What's BPS? Another IBM acronym of... 0 0 273

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The two things that these books have in common are: 1) They were published by IBM Press (Pearson Education), IBM’s partner in publishing.  Check out the deals that are being offered on IBM Press titles. 2) They were all authored by women.  Normally I wouldn’t... 1 0 372

Join Scott Hayes and special guest Burt Vialpando from IBM tomorrow (Friday June 18) on the DB2Night Show. Burt will provide a side by side comparison of architectures, terminology, file system layouts, directory structures, administration commands, memory... 0 2 443

If you've considered making the move to DB2, developerWorks has made it easier than ever to find out everything you need to know.   The  new DB2 enablement page for DBAs and database developers is loaded with resources -- articles, tutorials, demos, webcasts,... 0 0 319

Improve performance by 74%, while lowering data costs and downtime by up to 40% Modern day levels of high-velocity data growth have put increased pressure on today's database management systems to support increasingly complex workloads, applications and... 0 0 303

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I don't know about you, but I keep running into examples in the world where technology could be used to improve the experience.  Here are a few recent examples:   A friend of mine was charged a fee for not using her chequing account for a 3 month period.  When... 0 0 347

Thanks to Leons Petrazickis for reminding me about the DB2 Wiki .  Leons was able to add a recently written white paper to the site and I thought this would give me a good opportunity to tell you what you can find on this site.   The white paper that was just... 0 0 388

Have you seen Leon's recent blog entry? Move over Oprah, DB2NightShow.com is moving up in ratings My last post about the DB2Night Show was in error... I said that Mark Wilding was the special guest this week... but it's actually Mike Winer ! I'm sure Mark will... 0 1 358

IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook by Abhishek Sanghani Over 80 great recipes for taking control of Cognos 8 Report Studio Learn advanced techniques to produce real-life report... 0 0 468

SPVC courses are self-paced online training that offer you the flexibility to take training when and where you want. Get the high-quality content, hands-on lab experience, and instructor support of traditional classroom training, without the cost and hassles... 0 0 251

We're down to the wire... only 4 episodes remaining in the premier season of the DB2Night Show.    Ergin Babani  discusses the... 0 0 290

  IBM's Information on Demand (IOD) Conference took place in Rome : May 19-21.   My purpose at the conference was to sell books to attendees, but I wasn't able to arrange for a bookseller to set up shop.  I'm not able to sell books myself so I promoted both... 0 0 349

On Monday and Tuesday this week, the  CCDB2UG conference was held in Markham, ON.  I was very happy to be invited to take part in a very small way to speak to attendees during the reception and to network with people following the reception.   I handed out my... 1 0 383

Join Serge Rielau, DB2 SQL Architect from IBM in this free webinar:   Thursday, June 3 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern   Topic:   DB2 9.7 brought the biggest infusion of SQL features since DB2 V2.1. In this presentation, learn about features that lead to a ten-fold... 0 2 391

IOD EMEA which took place in Rome last week was a huge success.  I'm working on my trip report and will post some of it here.   Monday and Tuesday next week, I'll be at the Toronto conference CCDB2UG where the Central Canada DB2 Users Group is celebrating their... 0 0 257

 Don't miss Sam's appearance on the  The DB2Night Show Episode #19 Making It Big in Software with... 0 0 371