by Craig S. Mullins | Nov 18, 2020 | DELETE, sql
I regularly receive database- and Db2-related questions via e-mail. And that is great, but I don't always get a chance to respond to everything. If you've sent me a question and I haven't replied, I apologize. But every now and then, I will use one of the e-mail...
by Craig S. Mullins | Nov 3, 2020 | DBA, tao
A couple of years ago now, I published a series of blog posts here on the Db2 Portal blog under the title: The Tao of Db2. The general idea of the series was to offer some high-level, in-the-trenches guidance for Db2 database administrators. But I put the...
by Craig S. Mullins | Oct 21, 2020 | AI, AMI, automation, BMC, DB2 for z/OS, DBA, DevOps, ML
Recently I was invited by BMC Software to participate in their AMI Z Talk podcast series to talk about modern data management for Db2... and I was happy to accept.Anne Hoelscher, Director of R+D for BMC's Db2 solutions, and I spent about 30 minutes discussing modern...
by Craig S. Mullins | Oct 19, 2020 | in-memory, Memory, optimization, performance
A recent, recurring theme of my blog posts has been the advancement of in-memory processing to improve the performance of database access and application execution. I wrote an in-depth blog post, The Benefits of In-Memory Processing, back in September 2020, and...
by Craig S. Mullins | Oct 14, 2020 | FL508, Function Level, UTS
This month, October 2020, IBM introduced the latest new function level, FL508, for Db2 12 for z/OS. This is the second new function level this year (the first came out in June and you can learn more about it here).For those who don't know, the Function Level process...
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