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By Dave Beulke, on April 23rd, 2013 The BLU Acceleration technology is coming out and the new DB2 Version 10.5 Kepler performance improvements are game changing and dramatic especially for Big Data. I blogged about these features in a more detailed entry (IBM BLU Acceleration – Best Yet for Big Data!). The Columnar data store, 10x compression, in-memory processing, Single . . . → Read More: Big Data: BLU Acceleration DB2 Version 10.5 Kepler Considerations
By Dave Beulke, on February 19th, 2013 Recently I discussed DB2 SQL tips that have provided application performance for decades with my clients’ SQL developers. These DB2 SQL tips provide developers with performance guidelines that can help their application designs and SQL coding get the best performance the first time.
Since clients have many different DB2 SQL tips, I’ve listed below 10 . . . → Read More: DB2 SQL Tips: 10 Performance Guidelines
By Dave Beulke, on August 9th, 2011 Hardware continues to get faster, cheaper, and with more capacity. Now UNIX and even Windows systems are trying to handle billions of rows or terabytes of data. Database performance tuning is vital, but continues to get destroyed through wretched designs, poor application practices and maintenance malpractice which dramatically impacts overall database performance. Unfortunately, throwing more . . . → Read More: Database Performance Tuning Is Only Getting More Important
By Dave Beulke, on January 25th, 2011 DB2 Clean up – Close Out the Past
As I said last week, within every DB2 LUW or DB2 z/OS systems there are things that always need to be cleaned up. This week we look into the DB2 Plan and Package settings. These settings can . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Maintenance – Get All the Cache
By Dave Beulke, on January 18th, 2011 DB2 Clean up – Close Out the Past
As I said last week, within every DB2 LUW or DB2 z/OS systems there are things that always need to be cleaned up. This week it’s recommended that you look into your various program’s plan and package . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Maintenance – Trust But Verify
By Dave Beulke, on January 11th, 2011 DB2 Clean Up – Close Out the Past
Within every DB2 LUW or DB2 z/OS systems there are things that always need to be cleaned up. Test systems with unused databases, production jobs that need their schedule tweaked, reorgs for tables or indexes that need . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Maintenance – Start Off the New Year Right!
By Dave Beulke, on December 21st, 2010 Row and Column Access Controls
As I have talked about in previous weeks, another reason to request additional DBA resources are all the security configuration and settings involved with DB2 10 row and column access security. The setup, configuration and monitoring of these row and . . . → Read More: DB2 Security: Row and Column Access Controls
By Dave Beulke, on December 14th, 2010 Security Audits Coming Your Way
Is performance the number one issue for the DBA and the application teams or is security and governance? I guess it depends on your industry and point of view. With the latest WikiLeaks scandal, the new BASEL III requirements, HIPAA . . . → Read More: DB2 Audit Security Policies
By Dave Beulke, on December 7th, 2010 DB2 10 SECADM helps DB2 audits
In addition to the introduction of ROLES, encryption and masking of data, DB2 10 takes a giant step forward with security and DB2 audits with the new SECADM authority. This new SECADM authority is finally acknowledging the huge amount . . . → Read More: DB2 10 Security, the SECADM Opportunity
By Dave Beulke, on November 30th, 2010 DB2 10 Encryption and Masking
In addition to the introduction of ROLES with DB2 10 there are also a number of other security improvements that are also introduced with the new release. The first ones that are going to be a big hit with everyone . . . → Read More: DB2 10 Security Encryption Improvements
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