Not too long ago, I blogged about importance of getting developers to code parametrized queries instead of using literal values in SQL queries. In this post I urged every DBA to forward an article that talked about SQL injection attacks to their developers. Well, it would not have helped any to send this article to a Ruby on Rails developer because Ruby on Rails does not support parametrized queries. I should say “did not support till today”. Today IBM delivered version 2.0 of the Rails adapter for DB2 and the key future of this new version is support for parametrized [...]
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The next DB2Night Show episode on Friday December 4 (10am Central) will be a no holds barred comparison of the IBM DB2 Express-C and Microsoft SQL Server Express and we will throw in Oracle XE for good measure. We will also talk about Cloud Computing and its impact on database professionals. This is a must see episode so register now.
Every year around this time of the year great masses of IT people come to the Mandalay Bay Hotel And Conference center to attend IBM’s Information On Demand (IOD) Conference. It is a good place to learn the latest and greatest and to network. This year is the first year we have a significant Cloud Computing content on the agenda at the conference. If you are at the conference you really need to check it out.
If your interest is in DB2 on the Cloud, I will be doing these sessions (in chronological order):
Monday 6:00 – 8:00 Meet the Experts – [...]
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On Monday October 5, Sal Vella, IBM VP of DB2 development, introduced DB2 pureScale to the attendees of the IDUG Europe conference in Rome. Matt Huras, IBM Distinguished Engineer and the architect of DB2 pureScale, provided an in-depth technical description of DB2 pureScale in his conference session. Today, IBM followed up with a press release highlighting this new and exciting technology. Since press releases in general don’t provide much in a way of detail I decided to post some information on this blog based on what Sal Vella and Matt Huras talked about at IDUG Europe. This is not going [...]
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