Today's Finalist Winners: Ken and Sreeharsha

It's Day 3 of the DB2 Olympics!

90% of our studio audience learned something! We had some good presentations today on DB2 z/OS and LUW! Learn about DB2 SAP monitoring and tuning (z/OS), a great story about a table that was accidentally dropped and recovered (z/OS), and ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE - "The GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY." 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!

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!

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!

Special Guest: Lee Goddard, Chief Performance Architect, DBI Software

75 Ways to Save I/O and 25 Ways to Save CPU

92% 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...

Presented by: Phil Nelson
ScotDB Ltd.

"The DB2Night Show z43: DB2 z/OS in a Connected World"
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94% of our studio audience learned something!Phil presented several scenarios described DB2 for z/OS connectivity options. Watch the replay...

Special Guest:
Richard Winter, Winter Corp

BIG DATA - What Does It Really Cost?

97% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, Richard walked us through a brilliant analysis method for computing the cost of BIG DATA and shared with us some interesting examples and case studies. Watch and learn...

Special Guests: Jim Reed, IBM, Ember Crooks, Rosetta, Cristian Molaro, Consultant, Sheryl Larsen, IBM, Willie Favero, IBM, Susan Visser, IBM, Klaas Brant, KBCE, Julian Stuhler, Triton, Kent Collins, Consultant, Maria N Schwenger, IBM, Leon Katsnelson, IBM, Iqbal Goralwalla, Triton, Guy Lohman, IBM, Jessica Rockwood, IBM, Henrik Loeser, IBM, and Daniel L Luksetich, Consultant

3rd Annual Eggnog Party - Review 2013 and 2014 Forecasts

86% of our audience learned something! 54% of our studio audience claimed to be "Nice!" and 46% were "Naughty!" during 2013. Listen to the Who's Who of DB2 talk about great moments in 2013 and share their views on what they are looking forward to in 2014! Watch our replay for details...

Special Guest: Martin Hubel, MHC, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and Information Management Champion

Tuning SAP on DB2 LUW

100% 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...

Presented by: Julian Stuhler
Triton Consulting

"The DB2Night Show z42: DB2 11 for z/OS - Easing Upgrade Anxiety"
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98% of our studio audience learned something!Julian gave a comprehensive look at the new compatibility options available in DB2 11 for z/OS. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Damon Anderson and Steven Loesch
Anixter

"The DB2Night Show z41: New DB2 V10 Functionality Implemented at Anixter"
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100% of our studio audience learned something!Steve and Damon gave practical user tips and experiences for managing DB2 10. Watch the replay...

Special Guests: Ember Crooks, Rosetta, and Fred Sobotka, FRS Consulting

DB2 LUW Potluck - DB2 Experts Review Insights from IBM IOD 2013

88% 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...

Special Guest: Lee Goddard, Chief Performance Architect, DBI Software

17 Laws of building Petabyte Level DB and Big Data Systems

96% 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...

Presented by: Klaas Brant
IBM Gold Consultant & IM Champion

"The DB2Night Show z40: Dynamic SQL, Pros and Cons"
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98% of our studio audience learned something! Klaas presented many characteristics and considerations for using dynamic SQL. Watch the replay...

Special Guests: Scott Hayes, DBI, and Randall Ibbott, QBE

Feelin' BLU - Beyond the Marketing Hype
DB2 Users Test Drive BLU!

95% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, we skipped the marketing BLAH BLAH BLAH and real IBM DB2 BLU users shared their performance science projects and experiences! Watch and learn...

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...

Presented by: Dan Luksetich
IBM IM Champion

"The DB2Night Show z39: OLAP Queries for Powerful Reporting and Analytics "
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96% of our studio audience learned something! Dan described the new OLAP query capabilities in DB2 10 for z/OS. His presentation is also applicable to DB2 LUW! Watch the replay...

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...

Special Guests: Berni Schiefer, Jessica Rockwood, Michael Kwok, IBM Canada

IBM DB2 10.5 BLU Early Experiences and Best Practices

96% 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...

Special Guest: Kshitij Kohli, Sr. DBA, Church Mutual Insurance Company

DB2 Customer Success Story - Implementing a NEW DB2 LUW Application

100% 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...

Host & Guest: Scott Hayes, DBI Software

DB2 LUW 10 Index Jump Scans and Index Best Practices

100% 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...

Presented by: Cristian Molaro
IBM IM Champion and Gold Consultant

"The DB2Night Show z38: zIIPs and zAAPs in DB2 10"
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100% of our studio audience learned something! Cristian described zIIPs and zAAPS, and provided techniques to estimate savings, and for eligibility and monitoring. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Martin Hubel
MHC Inc., IBM IM Champion

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100% of our studio audience learned something! Martin presented his approaches to application problem solving and tuning. Watch the replay...

Special Guest: George Baklarz, IBM

What's New in DB2 LUW 10.5 - BLU and More!

97% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show™, George Baklarz, IBM's most frequent flier, shared with our audience great information about DB2 BLU Acceleration, pureScale enhancements, Oracle Compatibility Updates, JSON, DB2 Packaging Updates, and more! Watch and learn...

Presented by: Dave Beulke
IBM Gold Consultant and IM Champion

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92% of our studio audience learned something! Dave presented his experiences on implementing a time-constrainted project to implement a 22-billion row data warehouse. Watch the replay...

Special Guest: Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Database Performance Trends!

96% of our studio audience learned something! During this special episode of The DB2Night Show™, Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst with Forrester, shared with us his perspectives on Database Performance Trends. Learn about new application demands and workloads, mobile devices, virtualized servers, clouds, impacts of performance on profitability, and much more. Watch and learn...

Special Guest: Michael Krafick, DB2 Comic and "Blob Master"!

DB2 Customer teaches BLOBs obedience!

100% of our studio audience learned something! During this unique episode of The DB2Night Show™, Michael Krafick, Sr. DB2 LUW DBA, DB2 comic, and database obedience trainer shared with us his "school of hard knocks" lessons learned about achieving maximum, remarkable, awesome performance from BLOB objects in his organization's database! Do you have BLOBS? YES, you do! The DB2 Catalog contains LOB and LONG objects! Watch and learn...

Presented by: Gerald Hodge
HLS Technologies

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92% of our studio audience learned something! Gerry presented a detailed how-to on dynamic SQL hints for DB2 for z/OS 10. Watch the replay...

Presented by: Michael Tiefenbacher
Manager Business Systems, ids-System Munich, Germany

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96% of our studio audience learned something! Michael presented recent improvements to DB2 LUW Explain facilities, with many practical tips. Watch the replay...

Special Guests: Vijay Sitaram, Bob Vargo, IDUG

All About IDUG!
DB2's GOT TALENT Winners Announced!

80% of our studio audience learned something! During this annual episode of The DB2Night Show™, IDUG Volunteers shared with us news and valuable information about the upcoming IDUG Conference in Orlando Florida April 29^th - May 3^rd. We also announced the 2013 DB2's GOT TALENT Winners!

Special Guests: Mohan, Ember, Chris, Eric, and Sreeharsha!

Top "5" Finalists Compete!

95% of our studio audience learned something! This is it! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be determined by DB2 community voting! Today's presentations were fun and informative! This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice on Tuning Siebel, using MQT tables, virtual database administration, clever ETL tricks, and achieving DB2 success! Watch this replay, learn great advice from your DB2 community peers, then cast your vote for your favorites!