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If you are reading this post on FreeDB2.com, take a look to the right of this text and you will see a badge for IDUG Symposium in Bangalore India. It will be held at the Hotel Le Meridien August 21-23, 2008. For those of you in India, this promises to be a great event. And [...]

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I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single [...]

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Consumability survey is still available. Why not tell us what you think about your experience with getting and using DB2 Express-C. If you still don’t have DB2 Express-C you can download and use it free for as long as you want and you can store as much data as you want. Really, I am not [...]

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So, you downloaded the free DB2 Express-C and you have started to play around with it. Maybe you created sample database and started to explore it using DB2 Control Center. If you are a developer, you may find that DB2 Control Center does not quite fit what you think of a a development tool. It is [...]

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Just like any other DBMS, DB2 keeps all of your data in tables. The tables are organized in a usual i.e. data is stored in rows with each row having one or more columns. This is true even in the case when the data that is stored as XML. Hopefully it is not a surprise [...]

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