The Tao of Db2!

by | 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 guidance into a series of sketches where a retiring DBA was helping to train his replacement.

I bring this up today because those posts were written to be about “timeless” issues, not specific features and functionality of the DBMS. And I think it is still worthwhile to share those vignettes today, but there are fifteen of them… so today I am publishing this one post that contains links to all 15 of The Tao of Db2 posts!

  1. The Tao of DB2 – Part 1: Achieving Balance and Understanding with DB2
  2. The Tao of DB2 – Part 2: Beyond the Manuals
  3. The Tao of DB2 – Part 3: The New Big Project
  4. The Tao of DB2 – Part 4: Protect the Data!
  5. The Tao of DB2 – Part 5: Build a Backup and Recovery Plan
  6. The Tao of DB2 – Part 6: That Storage Stuff
  7. The Tao of DB2 – Part 7: Dealing with Performance Issues
  8. The Tao of DB2 – Part 8: REORG and Statistics
  9. The Tao of DB2 – Part 9: The Five R’s
  10. The Tao of DB2 – Part 10: Dispelling a DB2 Performance Myth
  11. The Tao of DB2 – Part 11: Calm Inaction: a Difficult Lesson to Learn
  12. The Tao of DB2 – Part 12: Dealing with Change
  13. The Tao of DB2 – Part 13: Constantly Learning More
  14. The Tao of DB2 – Part 14: A Short Lesson on Wisdom
  15. The Tao of DB2 – Part 15: Putting it all together!
I hope you enjoy these 15 stories on learning to be a good Db2 DBA and find them to be helpful, or at least entertaining…