Thank you IDUG and DB2's GOT TALENT Contestants!
Get Insider Tips on IDUG and Learn who Won DB2's GOT TALENT!

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89% of our audience learned something! Special guests Rob Crane and Vijay Sitaram from IDUG shared with us their tips and advice for making the most of your IDUG DB2 Tech Conference Experience. And, we announced 2012 DB2's GOT TALENT Winners! Get the details...

Thank you Top 7 Finalists!
Another Buffet of DB2 LUW and z/OS Tips and Advice

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100% of our audience learned something! Our Top 4 Finalists need YOUR votes! Their futures and BIG prizes depend on impressing YOU with their sage advice and presentation skills! Watch the replay, learn valuable DB2 LUW and z/OS tips and techniques, and then cast your votes for the finalists that impressed you the most!

Thank you Top 10 Finalists!
Another Buffet of DB2 LUW and z/OS Tips and Advice

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96% of our audience learned something! Our Top 10 Finalists need YOUR votes! Their futures and BIG prizes depend on impressing YOU with their sage advice and presentation skills! Watch the replay, learn valuable DB2 LUW and z/OS tips and techniques, and then cast your votes for the finalists that impressed you the most!

Thank you Top 10 Finalists!
Another Buffet of DB2 LUW and z/OS Tips and Advice

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95% of our audience learned something! Our Top 10 Finalists need YOUR votes! Their futures and BIG prizes depend on impressing YOU with their sage advice and presentation skills! Watch the replay, learn valuable DB2 LUW and z/OS tips and techniques, and then cast your votes for the finalists that impressed you the most!

Congratulations Ember, Brian, and Jean!
Another Buffet of DB2 LUW Tips and Advice

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90% of our audience learned something! Today's "special guests" included seven contestants that shared some very helpful and creative DB2 LUW tips. Our judges chose their favorite three to advance to the March finals. Watch the replay to learn about tips for Online Index Reorgs, Testing Recovery Strategies, using Workload Manager, debugging CPU spikes, maintaining 24x7 availability while implementing schema and application changes, virtual indexes, optimizing Prefetch I/O, and advice for using the DB2 LOAD utility!

Congratulations Rodolfo and Kingo!
Another Buffet of DB2 Tips and Advice

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At GOLD's Gym, there is a sign on the front door that reads "The hardest part is simply showing up." We were supposed to have seven contestants today. One had audio problems and three didn't show up. Of the three that showed up and presented, our judges chose two finalists. While it wasn't our best show, 75% of our studio audience indicated they learned something. There are some good tips...

Congratulations Kohli and Elder!
A Buffet of DB2 LUW Tips and Advice

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100% of our audience learned something! Today's "special guests" included six contestants that shared some very helpful and creative DB2 LUW tips. Our judges chose their favorite two to advance to the March finals. Watch the replay to learn about redirected restores, alternatives to db2imigr and db2iupgrade, statistical views, the db2gcf command, MQTs, and the ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE stored procedure! Watch the replay, learn, and VOTE!

Congratulations Richard, Douglas, and Yonghang!
A Buffet of DB2 LUW Tips and Advice

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96% of our audience learned something! Today's "special guests" included five contestants that shared some very helpful and creative DB2 LUW tips. Our judges chose their favorite three to advance to the March finals. Watch the replay to learn about the "db2greg" command, performance tips for migrating from Oracle to DB2 LUW, an excellent technique for diagnosing lock contention, and much more!

Special Guest: Cristian Molaro
IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant

Expert Advice and Solid Solutions
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98% of our audience learned something! Our special guest, Christian Molaro, DB2 Independent Specialist, shared with our audience the perils of Data Skew and provided solid, workable performance solutions. What did you miss? Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Roger Sanders
Director, EMC Corporation

Destined for Top 25 of 2012!
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96% of our audience learned something! Our special guest, Roger Sanders, Senior Systems Consultant and Director at EMC Corporation, shared with our audience how DB2 Certification Tests are created, road maps to various certifications (for z/OS and LUW), and provided advice on how to take the tests! If you aspire to obtain DB2 Certifications, you MUST watch this show...

Special Guest: Klaas Brant, CEO KBCE b.v.

In episode Z19, your host Klaas Brant is also the presenter. He reviews the many new options and features in DB2 10. From all the new features, it becomes clear there are at least 10 reason why migration to DB2 10 is a good idea! Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Ember Crooks
Technology Manager, Rosetta

Destined for "Most Popular" of 2012!
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Over the top! Our special guest, Ember Crooks, Technology Manager for Rosetta, under committed and OVER DELIVERED! Each of her Top 10 tips for e-Commerce database success were filled with important ideas and considerations! While her focus was e-Commerce databases, many of her ideas and recommendations are applicable to OLTP databases in general. 97% of our studio audience indicated that they learned something! WHAT DID YOU MISS?? Watch the replay...

Special Guests: SANTA and DB2 Experts
from around the world!

Martin Hubel, Klaas Brant, Susan Visser, Phil Grainger, Christian Molero, Chris Eaton, Mike Winer, Ember Crooks, Iqbal Gorawalla, Willie Favero, Serge Rielau, Paul Zikopoulos, Burt Vialpando, Norberto Gasparotto Filho, John Hornibrook, and several others shared with us their highlights of 2011, hopes for 2012, and fielded questions from our studio audience. SANTA visited us too! 84% of our studio audience indicated that they learned something! WHAT DID YOU MISS?? Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Phil Grainger, Grainger Database Solutions Ltd.

In episode Z17 our special guest Phil Grainger (Grainger Database Solutions Ltd. ) takes us on a tour through the alphabet on all kinds of DB2 Application Performance topics. This show is packed with hint and tips including the APAR numbers where to find more detailed information.

Special Guest: Curt Triplett, Independent Database Consultant
DBG Software, LLC

In episode #65, our special guest Curt Triplett shared with us his methodology and process for tackling tough query performance issues. The information shared is universally applicable to all relational databases including our favorites: DB2 for LUW and DB2 for z/OS. 83% of our studio audience indicated that they learned something! WHAT DID YOU MISS?? Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Namik Hrle, IBM

IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator: "a DB2 Query Performance Revolution..."

In episode z16 our special guest Namik Hrle (an IBM Distinguished Engineer from the IBM Boeblingen Lab in Germany ) gives us a deep dive into the new technology called "IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator" aka IDAA. This specialized DB2 engine is based on a Netezza appliance and can boost your (data warehouse) queries significantly.

Special Guest: Norberto Gasparotto Filho, IBM
2011 DB2's GOT TALENT WINNER

In episode #64, our special guest Norberto did a brilliant job of highlighting the top things he learned while attending IDUG EMEA in Prague. It was like "IDUG's Greatest Hits." For each technical session that Norberto attended, he shared excerpts and some of the most important, most valuable tips. He also talked a bit about his IDUG experience and the great value that he received. 94% of our studio audience indicated that they learned something! (I suppose the other 6% attended IDUG EMEA themselves and this show was review) WHAT DID YOU MISS?? Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Dirk de Roos, IBM

In episode #63 our special guest Dirk deRoos (IBM's World-Wide Technical Sales Leader) continued where Dan left off in the previous show. Dirk unveils how IBM processes big data, both at rest and in motion. No idea what that means? Watch the show and get educated in BIG Data!

Special Guest: Dan Luksetich, YL&A Inc.

In episode Z15 our special guest Dan Luksetich (a IBM Champion) gave us an overview of DB2 search and scroll techniques. If you are into SQL then you are going to enjoy this show. A must download!!

Special Guest: Sheryl Larsen, Sheryl M. Larsen Inc., Chicago USA

In episode Z14 our special guest Sheryl Larsen (a IBM Gold Consultant and IBM Champion) gave us an overview of some HOT SQL features and Index changes in DB2 10.

Special Guest: Dan Dubriwny, Big Data Tiger Team, IBM USA

In episode 62 our special guest Dan Dubriwny (a member of IBM's Big Data Tiger Team) gave us insight in what big data is. Dan is a first class presenter and 100% of the audience indicated that they learned something today. Do you know what big data is all about?

Special Guest: Dave Beulke, CEO of Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.,USA

In episode #Z12 our special guest Dave Beulke (CEO Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. / IBM GOLD Consultant / IBM Champion ) shared a lot of his DB2 Data Warehousing tips and Tricks. Dave works with large enterprises to optimize their Data Warehouse. In this session he will explain what he does to make sure Data Warehouses of many billion row can perform well in DB2.

Special Guest: Willie Favero, IBM, USA

Willie: "My presentations are like water, give me a space and I fill it..."

In episode #Z11 our special guest Willie Favero (IBM Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist) teaches you what has changed in DSNZPARM's coming from DB2 V8 or DB2 9. A 90 minute high tech talk from one of the best known IBM Software Specialists.

Host and presenter: Klaas Brant, KBCE, Netherlands

You can run but you cannot hide!

In episode #Z10, host and presenter Klaas Brant (IBM Gold Consultant and IBM Champion) gives an overview of the IBM PureXML technology. From the polls you can read that some people are into XML because they have to. Because XML is widely used as exchange mechanism it is just a matter of time before you have to use XML as well.

Special guest: Cristian Molaro, Belgium

This show did not go like I had planned. I knew that being in the hotel for the DB2 Symposium in Chicago I could expect trouble, but not the kind of trouble I did run into. But in the end everybody could enjoy Cristian's presentation so I guess all's well that ends well.

Special guest: Julian Stuhler, Triton Consulting, UK

All roads lead to Rome, very true for using DB2 in Java!

In episode #Z08, our special guest Julian Stuhler (IBM Gold Consultant, IBM Champion and former IDUG president) gives an excellent overview of the many ways you can exploit DB2 using the Java programming language; varying from simple JDBC to PureQuery. But he also discusses the impedance mismatch between Java and Relational Databases and the new features in DB2 9 and DB2 10 which Java can benefit from. Are you into Java then this DB2Night Show is a must!

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Three special guests: Surekha Parekh, Susan Visser and Willie Favero, all IBM

Where to find the latest and greatest about DB2 for z/OS?

In episode #Z07, special guests Surekha Parekh (DB2 for z/OS Marketing Manager), Susan Visser (Program Manager IBM Publishing), and Willie Favero (Writer, Speaker, Teacher, Technician, DB2 Enthusiast, and DB2 SME) show us the wonderful world of e-communities and blogs. Want to know where to find all the blogs, conferences, tweets, and groups to join? Learn from the experts who create them! As Always, 99% of our studio audience learned something! What did you miss? Watch the replay and find out!

Special guest Susan Lawson, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant, YL&A

What new tablespaces and options are available for DB2 z/OS V10?

In episode #Z06, special guest Susan Lawson, an IBM DB2 Gold Consultant and Owner Yevich Lawson & Associates, shared with us information about new tablespaces in DB2 z/OS V10, options, considerations, and some best practices. Remarkably, Susan offered all this free education from her hotel room in Croatia that overlooked the beach! What a sacrifice! 99% of our studio audience learned something! What did you miss? Watch the replay and find out!

Special guest John Campbell, Distinguished Engineer, IBM DB2 SVL Lab

How much storage does DB2 10 need? How CPU gain should I expect in DB2 10 CM? What if I move to DB2 10 but don't rebind?

In episode #Z05, special guest John Campbell, a distinguished Engineer of the IBM SVL Lab, is telling us all about DB2 10 for z/OS Planning & Very Early Experiences. John has worked with many of the DB2 users who have moved moved to DB2 10 already. He is probably the most aware person about DB2 migration benefits and problems. Watch episode #Z05 and get some free education on DB2 10 migration and what to expect from the new release based on user experiences.

Special guest Terry Purcell, Senior Technical Staff Member SVL

Want to know all about the DB2 10 optimizer improvements? Is the DB2 community using Hints?

In episode #Z04, special guest Terry Purcell, a Senior Technical Staff Member of the IBM SVL Lab, is telling us all about the optimizer improvements in DB2 10. Terry is a great presenter and, as always, his sessions are packed with a lot if great technical information. Watch episode #Z04 and get some free education on DB2 10 optimizer improvements.

Special guest Cristian Molaro, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant

More or less CPU? More or less Storage? What does DB2 10 have for us in mind?

In episode #Z03, special guest Cristian Molaro, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and co-author of the new DB2 10 Performance Redbook, is sharing with us his vision on DB2 10 performance. If you want to prepare yourself for DB2 10 then this presentation is a must-see!

Watch episode #Z03 and get some free education on DB2 10 Performance.