In our eighth episode, special guest Paul Bird from the IBM Canada Lab gave us updates on DB2 WLM and provided some best practices tips. However, the real excitement began when Mark Mulligan - a real live DB2 Customer using DB2 Workload Manager - shared with us his experiences and tips for implementing and using WLM. Mark's slides were impressive - he provided a cookbook recipe that others can follow!

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In our seventh show, special guest Leon Katsnelson, Program Director, IBM Data Servers, IBM Canada, gave us a great comparison of SQL Server versus DB2 LUW. He also talked about FREE DB2 and DB2 LUW in the cloud, and, as a bonus, he even compared DB2 Express-C to Oracle Express. So, if you are interested in learning more about free databases or would like to know how these offerings are different, then this is the show to watch!

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Oh! The audacity! In our sixth show, we talked about free application development tools for IBM DB2 LUW. We pitted IBM Data Studio against Quest Toad. Our special guests included Deb Jensen, IBM, and Jim Wankowski, Quest Software. Watch this show and listen to these two professionals duke it out for "best free tool"!

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In our fifth episode, we invited the DB2 LUW community to share their favorite SQL Snapshot commands. Chris Eaton from IBM shared his Top 10 favorite SQL Snapshots, Rebecca Bond shared some DB2 Security SQL, and Scott Hayes also shared some of his favorite SQL Snapshots. If you'd like to learn about SQL Snapshots and see some very useful SQL commands, make sure you watch this show!

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In our fourth episode, we enjoyed a presentation on the just announced DB2 9.8 PureScale release of IBM DB2 LUW. Our special guests included Matt Huras and Aamer Sachedina from the IBM Canada Lab. Watch this episode to learn about this exciting, highly scalable, release of DB2 LUW!

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In our third episode, we pitted IBM HADR & HACMP against XKOTO GRIDSCALE. Our special guests included Dale McInnis, STSM - DB2 Availability Architect, IBM, and Arif Kassam, Xkoto’s CTO. If you would like to learn the difference between HADR and XKOTO GRIDSCALE, then watch this show!

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In our second episode, we had some fun comparing Oracle terminology to DB2 LUW terminology, then Serge Rielau, STSM, DB2 Benchmark & Solutions Development, and Patrick Dantressangle, STSM, Information Management Architect, both from IBM shared with us details and success stories on DB2 LUW 9.7 Oracle enablement.

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In our kickoff episode, we had some fun with DB2 Top Ten lists. Drew Bradstock, IBM DB2 LUW Product Manager, shared his Top Ten list for the coolest new features of DB2 LUW. Rebecca Bond, Independent DB2 LUW Security Consultant, shared her Top Ten DB2 LUW Security Tips on video locations throughout New Orleans. Scott Hayes, President & CEO of DBI, IBM GOLD Consultant and Data Management Champion, and host of The DB2Night Show shared his Top Ten ways to know your DB2 LUW database is toast.

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