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Free e-book on getting best performance for DB2, SOA environments, and XML applications

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

DB2 Express-C comes with XML and Web Services support already backed. There is a free e-book from the experts in all things DB2 that supposedly helps you get the most out of these functions. The author of the section on automatic maintenance and utility throttling, Roger Sanders has written enough books on DB2 to fill [...]

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Tags: Administration · DB2 · Performance

There is still time to register for the 2008 IDUG Symposium in India

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Conferences · DB2

The demise of the open source fanatic

August 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Conferences · DB2 · EnterpriseDB · Ingres · MySQL · Open Source · Oracle · PostgreSQL · Random thoughts · SQL Server

Tell us what you really think about DB2 Express-C

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: DB2

Where did my Data Studio go?

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

So, you downloaded the free DB2 Express-CĀ 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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Tags: DB2 · Tools