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The DB2Night Show #111: What's New in DB2 LUW 10.5 "BLU and More!"

George Baklarz, IBM

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...



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The DB2Night Show z36: "Agile Big Data Analytics"

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...



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The DB2Night Show #110: Database Performance Trends with guest Noel Yuhanna

Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

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...



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The DB2Night Show #109: ATTACK of the BLOB! with guest Michael Krafick

Michael Krafick, Sr. DB2 LUW DBA

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...



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The DB2Night Show z35: "DB2 V10 Hint Functions for Dynamic SQL"

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...



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The DB2Night Show #108: "EXPLAIN Reality"

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...



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The DB2Night Show #107: All About IDUG & DB2's GOT TALENT Winners!

IDUG DB2 Tech Conference Orlando

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 29th - May 3rd. We also announced the 2013 DB2's GOT TALENT Winners!



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The DB2Night Show #106: DB2's GOT TALENT Top 5 Finalists Compete!

DB2's GOT TALENT

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!



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The DB2Night Show #105: DB2's GOT TALENT Top 7 Finalists Compete!

DB2's GOT TALENT

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

Top "7" Finalists Compete!

100% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were fantastic! This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice on Migrating Databases, Compression, Restrictive Databases, Isolation Levels, Altering Data Types, The Secret, and SQL for DBAs! Watch this replay, learn great advice from your DB2 community peers, then cast your vote for your favorites!



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The DB2Night Show #104: DB2's GOT TALENT Top 9 Finalists Compete!

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Ember, Mohan, Chris, Renu, Sanjay, and Sreeharsha!

Top "9" Finalists Compete!

80% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were fantastic! Unfortunately, GoToWebinar® was having problems today and many people, including finalists Eric, Armando, and Mikko, were unable to join today's show. Still, this show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice! Watch this replay, learn great advice from your DB2 community peers, then cast your vote for your favorites!



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The DB2Night Show #103: DB2's GOT TALENT Top 10 Finalists Compete!

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Ember, Mohan, Eric, Chris, Renu, Sanjay, Mikko, Armando, and Sreeharsha!

Top 10 Finalists Compete!

96% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were fantastic! And our judges were thankful that they didn't have to decide which were the best - that's up to you - our worldwide DB2 audience! This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice! Watch this replay, learn great advice from your DB2 community peers, then cast your vote for your favorites!



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The DB2Night Show #102: DB2's GOT TALENT Judges Compete!

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Susan Visser, Martin Hubel, Scott Hayes, Klaas Brant

What is the law of the water balloon?
Where is the gorilla?

100% of our studio audience learned something! What a fun and educational show! The DB2's GOT TALENT team has been dishing out presentation advice for 3 years, and today our judges and show host stepped up to the plate to offer some outstanding presentations! Learn about social media, DB2 index analysis, how to find costly SQL, and more tuning advice! Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show #101: DB2's GOT TALENT Contestant Search #3

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Worldwide Contestants!

Tips from Mikko, Umesha, Sreeharsha, and Armando!

90% of our studio audience learned something! Today's contestants talked about DB2 LUW Summary Tables and Monitoring, DB2 z/OS High Availability Bind Technique Solutions, DRDA Setup, and SQL Performance Tuning via tricks using partitioning, MQTs, and utilities! Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show #100: DB2's GOT TALENT Contestant Search #2

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Worldwide Contestants!

Tips from Adam, Chris, Renu, Juliano, and Sanjay!

90% of our studio audience learned something! Today's contestants talked about SSD performance impacts, automating DB2 backups and log management, improving LOAD and SQL performance, tips for deleting large numbers of rows, and DB2 z/OS V9/10 Plan Management Options. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show #99: DB2's GOT TALENT Contestant Search #1

DB2's GOT TALENT

Special Guests: Worldwide Contestants!

Tips from Ember, Mohankumar, and Eric!

100% of our studio audience learned something! Today's contestants talked about tips for running db2haicu, DB2 LUW data movement utilities, and the best ways to build an audit table using the partitioning feature of DB2 LUW. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show #98: DB2 LUW 10 Performance Updates with Berni Schiefer

Berni Schiefer, IBM

Special Guest: Berni Schiefer, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Canada

DB2 LUW 10 Performance Updates from the Lab

97% of our studio audience learned something! Berni's life has been all about DB2 performance since 1988. During today's show, Berni generously shared the latest DB2 10 performance news, tips, and insights with our audience. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z34: "IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator: The Next Generation"

Presented by: Namik Hrle
IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Germany

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100% of our studio audience learned something! Namik presented the advantages and improvements in the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA),including improvements introduced after V2. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #97: DB2 LUW 10.1 Cool Features No One is Talking About

Iqbal Goralwalla, Triton Consulting

Special Guest: Iqbal Goralwalla, Triton Consulting

DB2 LUW 10.1 Cool Features that No One is Talking About!

100% of our studio audience learned something! IBM marketing has drilled Adaptive Compression, Temporal Tables, Zigzag joins and more into our heads. Yet, beyond all the front page hype and hysteria, there are many new and awesome features in DB2 10.1 that aren't getting the attention they deserve. Iqbal lifts the hood and reveals the cool stuff you need to know about. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z33: "Why to REBIND or NOT to REBIND is STILL a QUESTION"

Presented by: Cristian Molaro
IBM Gold Consultant, M Consulting

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Cristian spoke about the importance of rebinding to obtain DB2 10 performance benefits, plan management, and the new Bind features in DB2 10 for z/OS. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #96: 2nd Annual Eggnog Party with DB2 Rock Stars

DB2 Experts

Special Guests: Berni Schiefer, Ember Crooks, Klaas Brant, Iqbal Goralwalla, Michael Tiefenbacher, Julian Stuhler, Susan Visser, Christian Molaro, Willie Favero, Martin Hubel, Santa Claus, & more!

2nd Annual Eggnog Party - Review 2012 and 2013 Forecasts

80% of our audience learned something! Two thirds claimed to be "Nice!" and most correctly predicted that the world would not end on 12/21/12. Listen to top DB2 Rock Stars talk about great moments in 2012 and share their views on what lies ahead in 2013! Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show #95: Back out strategies for DB2 LUW Database Changes

Ember Crooks, Rosetta

Special Guest: Ember Crooks, Rosetta

Do What I Mean - Not What I Say! Back out strategies for DB2 LUW Database Changes

97% of our studio audience learned something! Have you ever made a database change and then had an "oh crap!" moment? Mistakes happen! Upgrades go wrong! Ember gave us some very helpful advice on what to do to be prepared in the event that you need an "Undo" button! Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z32: "Willie's Brain Dump - Part 2"

Presented by: Willie Favero
IBM DB2 for z/OS Swat Team, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

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100% of our studio audience learned something! Willie talked about Explain, sort, bufferpools and other topics. The information was experience-based and invaluable. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #94: IBM DB2 LUW Data Warehouse Performance

Glen Sheffield, Haider Rizvi, Mike Kwok, Scott Hayes

Special Guests: Glen Sheffield, Haider Rizvi, Michael Kwok, IBM Canada

IBM DB2 LUW Data Warehouse Performance

97% of our studio audience learned something! Our IBM Canada guests shared with us the latest news, tips, and advice for Data Warehouse Performance. Their updates included information about IBM pureSystems and DB2 10 for LUW. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z31: "DB2 XXL - How to handle large volumes of data?"

Presented by: Klaas Brant
IBM Champion & Gold Consultant, KBCE

"The DB2Night Show Z31: DB2 XXL - How to handle large volumes of data?"
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98% of our studio audience learned something! Klaas talked about techniques to improve performance and the management of large tables. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #93: Big Thoughts on Big Data for DB2 People

Leon Katsnelson, IBM Canada

Special Guest: Leon Katsnelson, Program Director, IBM Canada

BIG THOUGHTS on BIG DATA for DB2 People!

97%% of our studio audience learned something! Leon gave us a fantastic presentation on BIG DATA. Not only did he explain what it is and why it is important, but finally, at last, someone explained DB2's relationship with BIG DATA! Leon also talked about HADOOP and other important technologies. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z30: "Finding Problems in a Mixed z/OS Environment"

Presented by: Jim Martin
Chief Architect, Fundi Software

"Finding Problems in a Mixed z/OS Environment"
Replays available in WMV and M4V formats!

88% of our studio audience learned something! Jim talked about techniques and an IBM tool help follow a transaction across various z/OS environments including DB2. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #92: Breaking News from IBM Canada with guest Les King

Les King, IBM

Special Guest: Les King, Director Data Management, IBM Canada

Breaking News from IBM! New IBM PureSystems!

100% of our studio audience learned something! Les shared with us information about new IBM PureData Systems for Transactions, Analytics, and Operational Analytics. No cost evaluations are available. Watch our replay for details...



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The DB2Night Show Z29: "You CAN Teach an Old Programmer New Tricks"

Presented by: Bonnie Baker
IBM Gold Consultant

"You CAN Teach an Old Programmer New Tricks"
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100% of our studio audience learned something! Bonnie talked about new techniques and what to ensure good DB2 application performance. Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show Z28: Willie Favero's DB2 for z/OS "Brain Dump" Part 1

Presented by: Willie Favero
Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team - DB2 SME

Willie Favero's "Brain Dump" on DB2 for z/OS, Part 1
Replays available in WMV and M4V formats!

98% of our studio audience learned something! Willie talked about statistics, plan management, DSNZPARMS, and other cool and useful stuff! Watch the replay...



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The DB2Night Show #91: Top DB2 LUW Performance FAQs with Steve Rees, Part 2

Steve Rees, IBM

Special Guest: Steve Rees, Performance Specialist, IBM Canada

Top DB2 LUW Performance FAQs, Part 2

100% of our studio audience learned something! Steve talked about monitor table functions and admin views, strange numbers in the monitors, literals versus parameter markers in dynamic SQL, the Statement Concentrator (STMT_CONC) - when to use it and when not to use it, improving performance of LOBs, temporary tables, virtualizing DB2 workloads, tips for large partitions, and much more!!! Watch and learn...



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