by Craig S. Mullins | Jan 1, 2021 | Happy New Year
Well, here it is, the day we've all waited for since about March of last year... the dawning of a new year. Happy New Year 2021!Good riddance to 2020 and all of the problems we faced and hello to a brand new year that, of course, will bring new problems and...
by Craig S. Mullins | Dec 17, 2020 | check, COPY, LOAD, performance, recover, REORG, RUNSTATS, UNLOAD, utilities
Db2 utilities are the unappreciated, and often over-looked, workhorses of your mainframe Db2 environment. They perform the dirty work that has to be done to populate, organize, backup, and recover your vital mainframe data. Without them, building effective Db2...
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...
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