Are you attending IDUG AP in Sydney? I hope so! The hard working volunteers at IDUG asked me to repeat my extremely successful and popular Ed Seminar from North America 2010 - "DB2 LUW Performance Analysis and Tuning Workshop".

To obtain maximum value from this class, you should follow the preparation instructions from THIS EARLIER BLOG POST (Click Here).

If you are not attending IDUG AP Sydney, don't worry - you have another chance at IDUG EMEA in Vienna Austria! This class is worth the trip! You will be receiving over thirty six (36) SQL Snapshot commands that will help you analyze and tune your DB2 LUW databases!

Finally, please don't plan on leaving early if you can avoid it. At IDUG North America, there were so many good questions and so much lively discussion that we actually ran long by a couple of hours. After class, we'll find the nearest pub and have a graduation ceremony to celebrate your success.

See you at IDUG,
Cheers,
Scott

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The DB2Night Show™ Episode #25 TELLS ALL

Seems like comparing a race car and a bicycle to me...

Did you miss today's episode of The DB2Night Show™? No worries. Replays are now available for your download and enjoyment! Just visit www.DB2NightShow.com and click the REPLAYS link at the top left. Also be sure to check out upcoming shows and register!

Cheers, your host, Scott Hayes

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During today's episode of The DB2Night Show™, we kicked off Season 2 with a special 90 minute show on "DB2 LUW Enablements for Oracle and Sybase". Our special IBM guests included Serge Rielau and Dwaine Snow - these guys did a great job bringing us up to date on DB2 9.7 FP2, FP3, and even a peek into the future. Did you miss this show? No worries! REPLAYS are available! Visit www.DB2NightShow.com

While you are there, check out and register for upcoming shows:

• 13 AUG 2010: Comparing DB2 LUW and Oracle Autonomics
• 20 AUG 2010: DB2 in the Cloud - Technical Details - Part 1
• 27 AUG 2010: DB2 in the Cloud - Technical Details - Part 2
• 10 SEP 2010: DB2 LUW Table Partitioning - The IMPORTANT Stuff
• 24 SEP 2010: DB2 LUW Recovery Best Practices and Tips
• 01 OCT 2010: DB2 LUW Security Tips, Best Practices, SQL, Scripts, and How-Tos

Attending The DB2Night Show Webinars is FREE and so are the REPLAYS! FREE is a good price that works for most budgets! Get Educated!

Speaking of DB2 Education, I hope to see you at IDUG in Sydney (AP), Vienna (EMEA), and Minneapolis MN (Regional) where I am giving technical sessions and Ed Seminars. Sign up!

Cheers, Scott

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Did you miss today's episode of The DB2Night Show™? We had a very special guest on the show - Adam Storm, Software Developer, DB2 Kernel Development, IBM Toronto Lab. Adam gave our virtual studio audience a great presentation on recent updates to DB2 LUW Autonomic Memory and the Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM). His slide deck was insightful, information packed, and very informative.

Check out replays of this and prior episodes at http://www.DBISoftware.com/blog/db2nightshow.php.

While we're at it, I should bring your attention to these upcoming episodes:

• 30 April 2010, "DB2 LUW Performance Updates and Best Practices" with the one, the only, the infamous Berni Schiefer, IBM Toronto
• 7 May 2010, "Top 10 DB2 LUW Mistakes that people make" with special guest Klaas Brant, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant, Owner KBCE, The Netherlands (Klaas' Dutch is excellent, and so is his English).

Find details and registration links at: www.DB2NightShow.com

And, one last thing for today - did you see the freely available SQL Snapshot command that analyzes memory for a database located here?

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Watch The DB2Night Show™ Episode #10 on 8 January 2010 at 10am CST! Our topic is "DEAR IBM..." and DB2 LUW users from around the globe have sent their comments and questions into our show! Our guests include senior IBM executives Sal Vella, Tim Vincent, and Drew Bradstock!

You can obtain your free seats to our virtual studio audience and find replays of previous episodes at http://www.DB2NightShow.com

The mission of The DB2Night Show is to Educate, Inform, and Entertain. In just a few months, we've had hundreds of DB2 professionals in our virtual studio audience and show replays have been watched thousands of times. If you haven't joined us yet, please be our guest! And if you've become one of our many loyal "groupie" followers, thanks for watching!

Cheers,
Scott Hayes

The IBM IOD Conference will be buzzing with news on DB2 for LUW 9.8 pureScale - amongst many other breakthrough announcements. But if you are not able to attend IOD this year, or if you are but want to be amongst "the first to know" the details, don't miss episode #4 of The DB2Night Show™ - Special guests Matt Huras and Aamer Sachedina from the IBM Toronto Lab will take us on a deep dive into this new release of DB2 LUW that offers breakthrough scalability without limits. Join us on 22 October 2009 at 9am CENTRAL/10am EASTERN for this in-depth first look at IBM's latest performance miracle. Claim Your Front Row Seat HERE. More...

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We heard it hear first - live from IDUG Europe in Rome Italy! In the wake of Orickle's 13G announcement, clearly IBM has its boxing gloves on!

DB2 LUW pureScale is somewhat akin to DB2 z/OS sysplex data sharing - multiple "member" hosts share storage and are interconnected by a high speed switch, although, in DB2 LUW's case, the switch is facilitated by innovative software running on a robust Power series server. The architecture and scalability is ideal for organization's having extremely high OLTP transaction processing requirements. More...

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