One of the fun things about publishing is getting questions from readers that make you think. A recent question I received went something like this: "Can I get the odd and even number of rows from a DB2 table?"Well, my first reaction was to think "this guy doesn't understand the way a SQL DBMS like DB2 works." The data in DB2 tables is not ordered, so there is no way to guarantee that the rows are odd or even numbered. While that observation may (or may not) have been true, it didn't help the guy. So I thought about it and came up with a possible...
Monday, 28 July 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Free Webinar - Database Auditing for DB2 z/OS - July 29, 2008
Posted on 09:46 by Unknown
Protecting corporate data is a requirement of doing business in today's regulatory and security-minded business environment. Protecting corporate data -- an especially sensitive data -- is a matter of knowing who is accessing data and what are they doing with it. There have been many solutions for addressing this need on distributed databases, but no reasonable solution for protecting mainframe data until now.Learn all about an exciting new solution for auditing your DB2 for z/OS databases and resources - Guardium for Mainframes - at this free...
Monday, 21 July 2008
New Data Sharing RedPaper
Posted on 08:49 by Unknown
Just a quick FYI today to let you know about a new RedPaper offering information about exploiting client load balancing and fail over capabilities across a DB2 data sharing group (or a subset of the group members).A RedPaper is sort of like a tip, only longer... and sort of like a RedBook, only shorter... Anyway, if you are interested in the topic, the RedPaper can be donwloaded for free by following this link: DB2 9 for z/OS Data Sharing: Distributed Load Balancing and Fault Tolerant Configurat...
Monday, 7 July 2008
A Video Interview on Long-term Retention
Posted on 13:04 by Unknown
When I spoke at the Techxans event in Houston this past May (2008) I was interviewed beforehand on what my presentation would cover. And lo' and behold, the Techxans folks have put that interview up on YouTube, so I thought I'd share it here with my regular blog readers. Enj...
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