DB2 LUW Cancun Release New Explain Information

The DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” was previously available as DB2 LUW Version 10.5 Fix Pak 4. The short list of prerequisites and summary DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” features list is here at the IBM DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” Fix Pak Knowledge Center website. Within the release there are many important features, and some . . . → Read More: DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” New Explain Information

DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” Additional Monitoring Capabilities

DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” was recently released as DB2 LUW Version 10.5 Fix Pak 4. As I wrote about last week, IBM has put a number of impressive features in this new update. Within DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” Fix Pak 4 there are several new and interesting monitoring elements. These new monitoring elements provide . . . → Read More: DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” Additional Monitoring Capabilities

BLU Acceleration DB2 10.5 for LUW Is the Best DBMS for These 4 Reasons

During the recent Information on Demand conference earlier this month I took to my Twitter account to highlight and note some of the more interesting details from the various sessions. There were many sessions on the new BLU Acceleration DB2 10.5 for LUW that highlighted its lightning speed performance and other great features.

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IDUG Europe 2013 - 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

This year DB2 celebrates 30 years of helping clients. The IDUG conferences are always great venues to connect with colleagues from around the world. The stories about companies, projects, and tools are very valuable to understand the truth, the hype, what is working, and how it is being done. The following three topics seem to . . . → Read More: IDUG Europe 2013 – 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

5 Reasons Why DB2 Is Still the Best Big Data Solution

The race is on among all the vendors to lock your new Big Data project in to their architecture, platform, and support contracts. All the open source Hadoop derivatives have boiled down to the leaders of Cloudera Impala, Teradata SQL-H, EMC Pivotal (formerly GreenPlum) MongoDB, and one of best–IBM’s BigSQL.

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DB2 10.5 Upgrade - 10 Reasons to Implement immediately!

The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference is always full of great DB2 Family presentations. I try to go through all of them because they are always full of great ideas, best practices, hints and tips. I guess that’s why IDUG celebrated both DB2 for z/OS’ 30-year anniversary and its own 25-year anniversary.

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