Three Ideas to Maintain Database Availability and Performance

Organizational demands for application database availability, reliability and performance for petabytes of big data and 100s of billions of rows of information continue to rise. These trends are ramping up at a faster rate as web, mobile, social, unstructured and streaming transaction and analytical data flood the corporate data landscape. Unfortunately, the data administration team . . . → Read More: Three Ideas to Maintain Database Availability and Performance

3 Ways You Can Be Appreciated as a DBA

Last week’s blog about making money with DB2 10 got some interesting comments, mostly related to how management only complains and does not really give us anything even after the performance is improved and we save the company a lot of time and CPU resources. One commenter told a story about an application that the . . . → Read More: 3 Ways You Can Be Appreciated as a DBA by Showing DB2 ROI

DB2 Security Review Step 1: User IDs

Security improvements within DB2 make it essential to do a security review of old existing and new practices and applications that are executing in your environment. While helping to review a system recently, several findings highlighted many interesting items from previous administrators, applications and associated vendors. Since this was an internal audit, the issues were . . . → Read More: DB2 Security Review Step 1: User IDs