by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jun 13, 2023 | administration, conference, DB2, IBM, idug, user group
Screenshot of IDUG websiteSummer vacation is coming up, but there are certain things to take care of before. One of such things is to register for the upcoming IDUG 2023 EMEA Db2 Tech Conference. The conference is held at the Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic,...
by Ember Crooks | May 30, 2023 | DB2, Db2vsMySQL, Featured, mysql
With a year of fairly extensive MySQL experience under my belt, and uncertainty as to which exciting direction my career will take me next, I wanted to take a moment to write about some of the differences between Db2 and MySQL at a fairly high level.… Read the...
by Michael Krafick | May 23, 2023 | DB2, Education and Skills, Experiments, Featured, Guest Blogs, performance
Database performance is heavily influenced by data volume and cardinality (or how unique that data may be). It’s interesting to watch the look on someone’s face when this concept clicks. There is a look of understanding from a developer when she can extrapolate why...
by Ember Crooks | Apr 25, 2023 | DB2, Featured, mysql, performance, scaling
“Relational databases don’t scale!”. This is the claim that database experts have heard over and over again, and yet we spend our careers scaling databases. I immediately translate this in my head to either “I threw hardware at the problem and...
by Ember Crooks | Apr 18, 2023 | DB2, Ember's Data Science Journey, Featured, mysql
About 18 months ago, I decided that it was time to look for my next job. I had only been at my employer at the time for about 2 years, and had helped them through a couple of tough things they had hired me for.… Read the rest
by Ember Crooks | Apr 11, 2023 | DB2, Db2vsMySQL, Featured, mysql
I’m going to walk through the basic creation of auto-incrementing integer columns in MySQL and Db2 and point out some differences and similarities. Functionality Every relational database I have worked with has had a functionality for generating column values....
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