Were you able to join today’s DB2 Night Show webinar?  Today was the start of this year’s very popular competition.  If you missed it, I strongly encourage you to watch the replay .  Here’s what you’ll get:   Contestant 1- Richard How to Find all DB2... 0 0 110

Crysta Anderson’s latest blog entry is a must read:  Top Books for your MDM Library .  She’s mentioned several books that I know very well and also recommend.  Her post reminded me that I met author Larry Dubov at IOD last year when he was promoting his... 0 0 156

It seems funny to write a “welcome to my blog” entry after blogging for so many years!  I’m sure I did such an entry when I first started my blog in 2005.  I know that I’ve written welcome-type entries after inviting many people at a conference to read... 0 0 156

  The initial response to DB2 10 has been extremely positive. An early adopter of DB2 10 said, “ We could not have been more thrilled with all the performance improvements! There is definitely gold in this version and you don’t even need to spend time to find... 0 0 352

  Winning a free trip to an IDUG conference of your choice is the first prize in this year’s “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition.  The IDUG locations that you’d choose from are Denver, Berlin or Sydney.  It would be pretty difficult to choose from such wonderful... 1 0 517

  The next Chat with the Lab takes place next Thursday, Jan 26 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm.  Join Rav Ahuja and Bill Minor (DB2 Tooling Development Team) for a discussion about Advanced Recovery Solutions.   Details: Register Now Date: Thurs, Jan 26, 2012 Time: 12:30-2:00... 0 2 809

Here are a few tips I’ve gathered over the years that may help you with your quest to get certifed: Most of the IM certification exams have a time limit of 90 minutes, except the upgrade exam which has a time limit of 60 minutes. The number of questions and the... 0 0 546

  Keeping your skills sharp are extremely important and getting certified can certainly help you do that.  But, we need to watch the amount of money we spend on everything these days.  Good news: IBM’s certification program offers ways to help you keep the... 0 1 490

I find it easiest to blog about DB2 certifications for a couple of reasons.  Mainly because my former job was Certification Program Manager, so I was responsible for all V7 and V8 DB2 exams, including the first DBA exam for DB2 for z/OS.   It is hard to get... 0 0 629

I like that my blog entries this week have all had the theme of certification.  Maybe I could do week long themes for blog entries this year….   Anyway, after I posted my Cert 101 blog entry, I was informed by Scott Hayes, host of the DB2 Night Show that Roger... 0 0 645

  Over the past week, I've written several entries to help you get certified.  This posting lists all of those entries and makes it easy for you to navigate through some of the material.  I'll repost or update this entry as I go.  I hope you find this... 0 0 573

Previously I blogged about the benefits of getting certified .  If, after reading that, you decide you want to earn a DB2 certification, what is the process?   Choose Job Role First you need to decide what job role you’d like a certification for.  For many people... 0 2 527

  The exam that you need to pass to start your journey on the road to DB2 Certification is the DB2 Family Fundamentals Exam 730.  This exam only contains questions for concepts that are common across all platforms that DB2 runs on.  There is a heavy SQL... 0 0 518

    I work in the Toronto Lab where we have at least 2500 employees.  We're lucky enough to have a library where local employees may borrow books.  This morning I shared the elevator with a couple of people carrying one of the books by Roger Sanders .  The book... 0 0 514

  The following exams were created to coincide with the product DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW):   Exam 541 - DB2 9.7 for LUW Database Administrator Number of questions: 60 Time allowed in minutes: 90 Required passing score: 61% Exam Objectives Courses... 0 0 717

  I just got a random call that was very interesting that I want to share with you.  The man calling got my name and number from some IBM webpage and he called to ask if there were basic training courses that cover Information Management.    Way back in... 0 0 471

  It seems to me, given what I’m being sent in newsletters, that this is the time of year to give some thought to improving personal habits.  The end of the year brings time for reflection on the year we just lived through and January is the perfect time to put... 0 1 338

  I noticed that Conor O’Mohony just posted a similar entry so it gave me an idea to do the same.  Thanks for the inspiration, Conor!   Last year on Dec 20, my blog had had 994,747 unique views since I started blogging on devworks.  Today, I have 1,994,943.  The... 0 0 524

These are books that I’ve worked on one way or another in the past year.  In most cases the links are to the e-version of the book… usually Kindle.  I have a Kindle and really like to read my books using this device.  With the prices of Kindles this year, I’m... 0 0 745