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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!

Destined for Top 25 of 2012!
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96% of our audience learned something! Our special guest, Serge Rielau, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Canada, shared with our audience advanced techniques for problem determination in SQL/PL, PL/SQL, and triggers - complete with demonstrations! And, the source codes are available! If you use these capabilities of DB2 LUW, you must watch this show...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.