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All the IT that a small business or a branch office needs

In the past year we have spent a lot of effort putting DB2 on the cloud and we achieved absolutely fantastic results. Db2 has proven to be a hit on both the Amazon cloud, on RightScale and on the IBM Developer Cloud. But all this focus on running applications on the rented IT infrastructure in the cloud does not mean we don’t care about people who want to have their own IT equipment. The free DB2 Express-C is a good fit for small and medium business and an even better fit for remote offices of very large enterprises. But, let’s [...]

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DB2 Express-C helps Russian ISV improve performance 5-10 times

If you spend any time in the fast growing Russian IT market there is one name you will no doubt be familiar with. I am not talking about Microsoft, Oracle, HP or even IBM. A company with a very short name “1C” is an icon of the Russian IT economy. Founded in 1991, 1C helped the newly formed Russian companies to get proper accounting and other financial management footing to be able to compete on the local markets and to enter and, in many cases, lead in the global economy. 1C is a major software distributor and an award winning game developer. If you like combat [...]

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Take a FREE virtual class on DB2

I know, every post on this blog seems to have word FREE in it. I talk about free DB2 Express-C, free book on DB2 Express-C, free Data Studio and a free webinar to go with it. Well, what did you expect from a blog that has “FREE” in its name.

The subject of this short post is the virtual class on DB2. And you guessed it, it is free. So click on this link and get a bit more detail on Susan Visser’s blog.

The Article every DBA should forward to SQL developers

I think that every Database Administrator needs to read the article “Opinion: No more excuses for SQL injection attacks” and send it out to every application developer they know. I hate SPAM as much as the next guy but I think it is justified in this case. I am dead serious.
We, the database people of all walks of life (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server …), have been talking about the benefits of using parameters in the queries instead of literal values for years. The main message has been “performance”. Most DBMS will perform much better and will use less server resources [...]

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What is new in DB2 Express-C: Clearing DB2 bufferpools

We are in the process of refreshing free DB2 Express-C to the new level i.e. v9.5.2. There are lots of enhancements that you will get as a result of this refresh. Customers that had DB2 Express-C subscription did have these enhancements delivered as part of FixPack 1 and FixPack 2. Now those of you that are using the free version of DB2 Express-C can also take advantage of all the goodness that the latest version of DB2 Express-C has to offer.
This post is about a very small but sometimes very useful new feature in v9.5.2. At one point in time [...]

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