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Special Guests: Mohan Saraswatipura & Kent Collins, Authors
DB2 LUW 10.1/10.5 Certification Crammer,
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Special Guests: Mohan Saraswatipura & Kent Collins, Authors
DB2 LUW 10.1/10.5 Certification Crammer,
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Today's Finalist Winners: Brandon, Roberto, Pratik, Sreeharsha, & Rohit94% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were surprisingly good considering that we had contestants from New Zealand, Mexico, and India! It fascinates me that we can gather around our computers and learn from industry peers all over the world. You will learn about improved indexes in V10.5, locking analysis and tips, how to improve Federated DB2 performance, a method to achieve high availability for DB2 10.5 using OS Clusters, insights from a DB2 z/OS DBA that experimented with DB2 LUW Express-C, and experiences with testing DB2 10.5 columnar tables with storage and performance results. Truly, this show contains a buffet of useful tips and advice! Enjoy! |
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Special Guest: Adam Storm, Master Inventor & STSM, IBM Canada Lab
5+ Cool Tricks for DB2 LUW100% of our audience learned something! Based on his popular and humorous IDUG presentations, Adam treats our audience to his wit and wisdom for DB2 LUW --- and even includes a bonus trick! #6! You will learn about STMM - how it works and ideas for monitoring it, a secret decoder ring for db2diag.log, Workload Manager and how to pull pranks on your friends, how NOT to use db2dart, and more! Enjoy... |
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Special Guest: Melanie Stopfer, DB2 Brain Surgeon, IBM Software Group
db2pd Party! The Power of db2pd!99% of our audience learned something! Who knew that there were so many options for the powerful and popular "db2pd" command? Not only did Melanie share dozens of db2pd command examples and tips, but she also compared and contrasted to various MON_GET function calls and SQL commands. Bonus! Melanie also talked about DB2 security, trusted contexts, HADR, locking, indexes, and more! Enjoy... |
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Special Guest: Ember Crooks, Xtivia
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Special Guest: Scott Hayes, DBI Software
Sage DB2 LUW Performance Advice
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Special Guest: Iqbal Goralwalla, Triton Consulting
DB2 V10.5 FP4 "Cancun" Shadow Tables
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Special Guest: Paul Turpin, Sr. DBA, BB&T Bank
Advanced "db2batch" command Tips and Techniques98% of our audience learned something! During today's show, Paul shared his excellent IDUG presentation in which he details his experiences, tips, and advice for using the IBM DB2 LUW "db2batch" command. There are many options to consider. By using the right options, you can Run and Explain your SQL, limit outputs, and choose various levels of performance details. Watch our replay to learn all the tricks... |
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Special Guest: Melanie Stopfer, DB2 Brain Surgeon, IBM Software Group
Upgrading to IBM DB2 LUW V10.5 Best Practices and tips!100% of our audience learned something! Our studio audience was filled with inspiration and gratitude for Melanie's presentation! Watch our replay and you will see a complete cookbook for how to upgrade, what to watch out for, undocumented tricks that will speed up your upgrade, and even a recipe for falling back to your original release if your upgrade has a hiccup! With 34% of our DB2 community currently running V10.5, the timing for this presentation is "just right" and it will undoubtedly be in our top Replays for 2014! Enjoy... |
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Special Guest: Leon Katsnelson, Director, Information Management Cloud & Mobile, IBM Canada
IBM CLOUD UPDATE!100% of our audience learned something! Awesome! IBM has three pillars of priorities: 1) Cloud, 2) Analytics (big data), and 3) Engagement (including mobile). If you check Leon's title again (above), LEON IS THE MAN covering two of the three important IBM priorities! Leon gave us an excellent presentation on Cloud computing plus an impressive demo! Check out our polling questions to see what your peers think about Cloud! Watch our replay for details... |
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Special Guest: Paul Turpin, Sr. DBA, BB&T Bank
Why Wait? DB2 LUW Locking100% of our audience learned something! During today's show, Paul shared his excellent IDUG presentation in which he details terrific information about DB2 LUW locking! Learn about maxlocks, mon_lockwaits, mon_lw_thresh, mon_deadlock, mon_locktimeout, locktimeout, monreport, mon_get_pkg_cache_stmt, mon_db_summary, mon_lck_msg_lvl and the secret decoder ring, lock behavior, set current lock timeout, secret DB2 registry variables that impact locking, deadlocks, and much more, plus get MANY great SQL and command examples! Watch our replay for details... |
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Special Guest: Ember Crooks, Rosetta
Why Low Cardinality Indexes Negatively Impact Performance100% of our studio audience learned something! Based on her popular IBM Developer Works article and blogs, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant Ember Crooks brings her articles on Index Cardinality to life via her excellent IDUG presentation! Watch our replay for details... |
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Top 6 Finalists Compete for YOUR votes!
Grand Finale of the DB2 Olympics!Almost 100% of our audience learned something! The DB2's GOT TALENT March Finalist shows are amazing, awesome, incredible, phenomenal, terrific, educational, fun, informative, and entertaining! You can learn from and enjoy great presentations by rising stars in our DB2 community! Watch this replay, learn good advice from your peers, then VOTE for your chance to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! |
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Top 7 Finalists Compete for YOUR votes!
It's Day 7 of the DB2 Olympics!100% of our audience learned something! The DB2's GOT TALENT March Finalist shows are amazing! You can learn from and enjoy great presentations by rising stars in our DB2 community! Watch this replay, learn good advice from your peers, then VOTE for your chance to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! |
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Today's Finalist Winners: Ian and Swapna
It's Day 4 of the DB2 Olympics!100% of our studio audience learned something! We had some good presentations today on DB2 LUW! Learn how to tune DB2 LUW memory including bufferpools and configuration parameters, a clever way to save yourself a lot of typing for DB2 commands, and a method of transferring DB2 database data from UNIX to Windows systems. Watch this replay, learn good advice from your DB2 community peers, then complete our survey for your chance to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! |
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Today's Finalist Winners: Prasad, Michael, and Raja
It's Day 2 of the DB2 Olympics!100% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were fantastic! We had seven LUW themed contestants! You can learn about ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE, monitoring and tuning static SQL, reclaiming space with db2dart, solving a complex DB2 DPF performance issue, the change event history monitor, and Q-replication! This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice! Watch this replay, learn good advice from your DB2 community peers, then complete our survey for your chance to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! |
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Today's Finalist Winners: Robert, Saurabh, and Mariana
It's the DB2 Olympics!95% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were fantastic! Ember Crooks was a substitute judge for Klaas Brant. USA, Brazil, and India competed! You can learn about DB CFG CPUSPEED, a solution for purging 1.1TB of data, and get advice on automating DBA tasks. This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice! Watch this replay, learn good advice from your DB2 community peers, then complete our survey for your chance to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! |
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Special Guest: Lee Goddard, Chief Performance Architect, DBI Software
75 Ways to Save I/O and 25 Ways to Save CPU92% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Lee Goddard shared priceless thoughts and valuable tips on how to reduce system resource consumption! Odds are very high you are going to learn something helpful! Watch and learn... |
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Special Guest: Martin Hubel, MHC, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and Information Management Champion
Tuning SAP on DB2 LUW100% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Martin offered many valuable suggestions for tuning SAP in a DB2 LUW environment based on his experiences at several clients. This presentation has "meat on its bones"! Learn about dropping indexes, adding indexes, block based bufferpools, STMM, Vector I/Os and more! Watch and learn... |
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Special Guests: Ember Crooks, Rosetta, and Fred Sobotka, FRS Consulting
DB2 LUW Potluck - DB2 Experts Review Insights from IBM IOD 201388% of our studio audience learned something! 12% attended for the humor! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Ember and Fred shared with us what they learned and observed at IBM IOD 2013. Find HADR tidbits and more, plus some great advice if you are thinking about attending IBM Insights in 2014! Watch and learn... |
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Special Guest: Lee Goddard, Chief Performance Architect, DBI Software
17 Laws of building Petabyte Level DB and Big Data Systems96% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Lee Goddard shared invaluable insights on the laws of very large databases! Odds are very high you are going to learn something helpful! Watch and learn... |
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Special Guests: Scott Hayes, DBI, and Randall Ibbott, QBE
Feelin' BLU - Beyond the Marketing Hype
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Special Guests: IBM Master Inventors Guy Lohman and Shankar Raman
IBM DB2 BLU Intimate Details!97% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Guy and Shankar began by sharing the usual "marketing" slides on BLU (it must be an IBM requirement) but then treated us to a deep dive on technical details we've not seen in any other presentations. If you're the sort of person that likes to take things apart to see how they work, then watch and learn... |
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Special Guest: Kent Collins, Sr. Database Consultant
IBM DB2 10.5 BLU "Real Life" Experiences and Advice!100% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Kent shared with us many Kent-isms such as "It isn't peanut butter and jelly" along with volumes of practical BLU advice based on his testing and implementation experiences. Kent affectionately called his presentation "A BLU print for BLU!" Watch and learn... |
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Special Guests: Berni Schiefer, Jessica Rockwood, Michael Kwok, IBM Canada
IBM DB2 10.5 BLU Early Experiences and Best Practices96% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, our IBM Canada guests took us on an informational BLU adventure! Berni introduced this exciting new technology, Michael shared with us several early customer success stories, and then Jessica did an outstanding job of sharing current ( and evolving! ) BLU best practices! Our live audience asked several excellent questions at the end! Watch and learn... |
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Special Guest: Kshitij Kohli, Sr. DBA, Church Mutual Insurance Company
DB2 Customer Success Story - Implementing a NEW DB2 LUW Application100% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, "Kohli", Sr. DBA at Church Mutual and 2012 DB2's GOT TALENT Winner, shared with us several valuable tips and techniques for achieving GREAT performance from DB2! How can you get fast index access from a LIKE %string% predicate? How can you tune your I/O subsystem? How can you measure performance and make the case for safely and successfully upgrading to a new DB2 release or version? Watch and learn... |
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Host & Guest: Scott Hayes, DBI Software
DB2 LUW 10 Index Jump Scans and Index Best Practices100% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Scott Hayes, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and Information Management Champion, wore two hats and doubled as show host and guest! Scott shared an updated edition of his IDUG Orlando presentation on DB2 LUW 10 Jump Scans that adds DB2/AIX tests to the original DB2/Windows tests. Watch and learn... |