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I joined IBM shortly after I graduated from the University of North Texas back in 2019. I was full of excitement and eager to embark on my first...

In the last year a bit of a revolution has emerged in the Business Intelligence (BI) space, with the introduction of watsonx.data, IBM’s newest data...

As you know, the cost of data warehouses is significantly dependent on the cost of storing significant amounts of data, and implementing COS support...

I've got the Db2 instance up and running now, am I production ready?

IBM provides a cloud-based version of Db2 LUW.  It is a full version of Db2 LUW Version 11.5.  The Db2 in the cloud can be very powerful and highly...

If you would have asked me one month ago to come up with a query that coughs up missing numbers, I would have told you that there is no such a need...

Our shop runs a number of non-mainframe applications that connect to Db2 through DDF. One of these applications is IBM Datapower Gateway...

You want to write a program that connects to Db2 for z/OS and runs queries, updates the tables, and all the stuff you would expect from a database...

65 million years ago, or so it seems to many, COBOL-programming dinosaurs roamed the earth. They accessed their Db2 data with highly efficient...

Let me openly admit that my first treatment of this topic was a very thorough top-down, lecture style, technical approach … until Michael Keaton...

First off, I strongly recommend readers to review Chapter 1 of this series - The Book of Db2 Pacemaker – Chapter 1: Red pill or Blue pill? It...

The following is a collection of SQL tips and reminders about modern SQL that some people may have forgotten.  These SQL tips are ...