New shows for Season #10 of The Db2Night Show are scheduled! Encryption! IDUG! IBM Breaking News! Problem Determination! Here are the highlights and registration links:

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Season #9 of The Db2Night Show™ is coming to an end soon, so don't miss our upcoming shows on Db2 pureScale (8 June), Db2 Security (15 June), and Db2 SAP success experiences (22 June) ! Everyone loves success stories! Learn from IBM Champions and Experts...

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Have you registered to attend IDUG Philadelphia 2018 yet? The early bird registration discount expires 31 March 2018 and hotel space is filling up, so don't delay!

Top Reasons for Attending IDUG

We asked over 50 Db2 Professionals "What do you love about IDUG or why do you attend (briefly)?" Here's what people commented...

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Don't miss Ember Crooks presenting "Using Jupyter Notebook for Db2 Administration" on Friday 2 February at 10am CST! REGISTER! IBM Champion and IBM GOLD Consultant Ember Crooks had standing room only for this presentation at IDUG Lisbon! More...

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From time to time we've received feedback that finding content on The DB2Night Show™ is challenging. We're going to let you in on a well kept secret - SEARCHING The DB2Night Show replays, and other DBI hosted blogs, is now EASY! Hint: There's a "Search" tool in the right column! But there's more you should know...

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The DB2Night Show is pleased to share a ranked list of the Top 20 most popular DB2 LUW show downloads from September 2015 to October 2016 (Season #7 plus recent). If you haven't downloaded and watched these shows, you probably should because the DB2 community really likes these! The #1 show was downloaded over 8,000 times, and all shows in this ranking were downloaded over 1,200 times!

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Free DB2 LUW Education, plus Free Starbucks coffee too! Friday 17 June 2016 is a big day featuring THREE DB2 LUW education events:

1. 10:00am CDT: DB2 LUW Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL with guest David Kalmuk, STSM, IBM Canada
2. 11:30am CDT: DB2 DPF/MPP - What a single partition DBA needs to know in 10 Points! with guest Pavan Kristipati, Sr. DBA, Huntington Bank
3. 2:00pm CDT: How to Tune DB2 LUW in Minutes by DBI Software with guest Scott Hayes, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant, IBM Champion. ATTEND this session and get a $10 Starbucks Gift Card or a $10 Amazon.com Gift Card!

AND, saving the BEST for last, Melanie Stopfer, IBM DB2 LUW Brain Surgeon, presents...

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Berni Schiefer! IBM Fellow! Performance God! Matt Huras! Chief Architect DB2 LUW! DB2 Mastermind! WHAT'S COMING IN VNEXT? Register NOW!! Studio audience size is limited to 1,000 attendees!

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REGISTER NOW for ALL ABOUT IDUG (Austin Texas, May 23-26) and DB2's GOT TALENT 2016 Winners, Friday, April 1st, 10am CDT/11am EDT! Just a few days left to vote! Who will win the IDUG badge? iPad? See YouTube video links below...

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Don't miss Martin Hubel, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and IBM Champion, FRIDAY 18 MARCH 10am CDT on The DB2Night Show™ talking about DB2 LUW Bufferpool Tuning! REGISTER NOW! It's a block party!

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Some REALLY BIG news is coming and you DON'T want to miss it! Watch The DB2Night Show TODAY, 11 March, 10am CST and be the first to hear a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. Also, we'll have several excellent presentations given by our judges and some special guests! Should be A LOT of FUN! REGISTER NOW!

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Based on feedback from prior years, we've made the contest simpler, less time consuming, and more fun. Instead of possible multiple callbacks, contestants only present ONE time, and every contestant will win an honorarium prize ranging from $10-$75 USD via Amazon.com gift card! Plus, contestants could win a badge to IDUG or an Apple iPad Air. Please consider sharing a tidbit of your knowledge with the DB2 community. LEARN MORE NOW!

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Join us Friday 26 February 10am CST for DB2's GOT TALENT on The DB2Night Show and you will learn about: New features and managing tablespaces in DB2 LUW 10.5, DB2 LUW Compression in DB2 10.1 and 10.5, how to migrate over 20 DB2/AIX databases from Power6 to Power8 in minutes, and, for DB2 z/OS, a presentation on RIDs, Referential Integrity, Restrict, SQL -532 error, and a solution!

Oh! And we're looking for 1 more contestant on 26 Feb!

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We checked with Santa and it turns out you've ALL been NICE this year! You can now download replay files in WMV and MP4 formats for episodes #161-#165. For those of you that only got a lump of coal in your stocking, this is perfect - something productive to do since you didn't get any new toys! Ho ho ho! Get the replays...

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Friday 18 December 10am CST The DB2Night Show™ presents "Our Annual Eggnog Party with DB2 Experts Panel!" - Don't miss it! Normally you'd only get a chance to ask a panel of DB2 experts questions like this at an IDUG conference, but we're bringing the EXPERTS to our show! Meet our Experts...


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Friday 4 December 10am CST The DB2Night Show™ presents "DB2 LUW Tips and Tricks: UNIX, SQL scripts and more for Lazy DBAs" with special guest Pavan Kristipati, Sr. DBA, Huntington Bank. It's not that Pavan is lazy, he's just super busy like all DBAs and he has developed many scripts, SQLs, and shortcuts to make his job easier. You don't want to miss this show!


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Don't miss Ember Crooks on The DB2Night Show™ Friday 16 October 2015 at 11am ET/10am CT talking about "8 High-Impact Performance Tuning Tips for DB2 LUW OLTP and E-Commerce Databases." In addition to our usual $25 Amazon.com drawing, we'll be giving away an autographed copy of the new DB2 10.1/10.5 Certification Study Guide by authors Mohankumar Saraswatipura and Kent Collins! Read more...

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I received a lovely note tonight from one of our DB2's GOT TALENT 2015 contestants. It warms my heart to see how we're helping people with DB2 and their careers. Read more...

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The DB2Night Show™ begins Season #7 with guest Melanie Stopfer, IBM DB2 Brain Surgeon, on 4 September 2015 at 10am CDT talking about DB2 LUW Security and Auditing! Her presentation titled "Who's Knocking at your Door?" will keep you on the edge of your seats while she carbo loads your brain muscles with ideas and best practices for security and auditing! REGISTER NOW!

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Congratulations again to Joyce Danielle, Stella Keesling, Peter Schuetze, Jeff Agosta, Kapil Mathur, Deborah Gresham, Joshi Jayesh, Michael High, Larry Danley, Divesh Kumar, Louis Brendemuehl, and Ken Shaffer - thanks for completing our post-show surveys - we've just issued $25 Amazon.com gift cards to you! Also, thank you to everyone that voted in DB2's GOT TALENT 2015! The following voters have won $25 Amazon.com gift cards: Pavan Deep, Tim Barritt, Guadalupe Felix Barajas, and David Betancourt! So far in 2015, The DB2Night Show has paid out over $3,000 USD in prizes! Check our SHOW SCHEDULE for new shows and sign up!

Update! 999 votes cast! Find out who won DB2's GOT TALENT 2015!

Get the inside scoop and latest news about IDUG NA Philadelphia May 4-8, plus we'll be announcing our 2015 DB2's GOT TALENT Winners! Join us 10 April 10am CDT/11am EDT to get the most value out of your IDUG conference experience!

Have you voted yet for DB2's GOT TALENT? Polls close 8 April 2pm CDT. VOTE HERE!

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The international Olympics of DB2 continue Friday 27 MAR 2015 10am CDT with our Top 5 Finalist Contestants competing for YOUR votes! Have you registered yet?
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The international Olympics of DB2 continue Friday 20 MAR 2015 10am CDT with our Top 6 Finalist Contestants competing for YOUR votes! Have you registered yet?
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The international Olympics of DB2 continue Friday 13 MAR 2015 10am CDT with our Top 8 Finalist Contestants competing for YOUR votes! Have you registered yet?
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The international Olympics of DB2 continue Friday 6 MAR 2015 10am CST with our Top 9 Finalist Contestants competing for YOUR votes! Have you registered yet?
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The international Olympics of DB2 continue Friday 20 FEB 2015 10am CST with DB2 z/OS contestants from Austria, India, Iran, and Japan! Have you registered yet?
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There's a new DB2 10.1/10.5 Certification Book coming out! The authors of the book, Mohan Saraswatipura and Kent Collins, will be our special guests on February 13th (Part 1) and February 27th (Part 2). They will share information about the book plus teach assorted topics from it! Folks, this is FREE DB2 Certification Training!

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We're on! We have enough contestants to run the DB2's GOT TALENT 2015 Contest! BUT, we could use more! Please apply today! The DB2 Community Grows when people share what they know!

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A contest isn't a contest without contestants! So far we have 8 professionals from Mexico, Iran, India, Finland, and New Zealand, and we need at least 12 more DB2 people for our February auditions by this Friday 30th January! Click DB2's GOT TALENT 2015 for details, prizes, sample topics, and link to the contestant application!

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The DB2Night Show™ is pleased to announce our most popular DB2 for z/OS shows of 2014 based on number of replay downloads during the calendar year. You might notice that some of the shows are older - blame it on very helpful content! If you haven't seen these shows yet, make sure you download them, watch, and learn!

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