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The DB2 folk have published a few performance tips for you to aid you as you upgrade to DB2 9 for z/OS. It's short, sweet, and to the point. You'll want to check it out to make sure you are taking advantage of the suggestions being made. "DB2 9 migration:

Willie's "Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z" blog. Six (6) of the DB2 9 for z/OS product publication have been updated in June 2009; "Administration Guide", "Application Programming & SQL Guide", "Application Programming Guide

Way back on April 10, 2007 (yes, that's more than two (2) years ago) I published a blog entry about the RANDOM keyword on the CREATE/ALTER INDEX statements that was introduced in DB2 9 for z/OS. That entry was titled "DB2 may help fix contention from index hot spots" . There wasn't much said in that blog post back then so today I thought I would add a few more words about creating random indexes

I know that I have few occasion to post anything about DB2 LUW, it's just not where I spend a lot of my time. However, this is such a deal, I can't pass by the opportunity to tell you about it. What could be better than a free database and a free book to tell you about the database. You can't get pricing much better than FREE.

Now that PostgreSQL 8.4 is out, I thought I'd write a little about my favorite 8.4 feature. As Mister Performance Whack-a-Mole, what makes me happy about 8.4 is the ability to whack moles faster ... which is why I'm very fond of pg_stat_statements.

It doesn't seem to matter where I go, the challenges seems to revolve around one strikingly similar question: "how do we prioritize our efforts based on the current situation?" Another way to ask this question is this: "how do we allocate our limited resources?" We may be in a steady state mode, where we focus on getting the most out of the business model we are following. We may be in a green

My Pet Peeve of the Week is "THE ABSENCE OF ELECTRONICS" - "Imagine no cell phones, it's easy if you try, no PC's or TV's, above us, only sky."

As I mentioned a while back, Fusion Middleware 11g will be launching, officially, on July 1. You can join the festivities in DC by logging into the webcast, July 1 at 10am EST. I don't know if the breakout sessions will be included but it will be at least the keynote and I would bet a demo, possibly

The personal cloud is really no big deal. It is simply the result of a presales guy trying to do his job a little better. There is no presales guy I know who does not want to be able to address a prospect's question with a demonstration. I have found that the personal cloud concept provides this. What do you think?

Forrester recently named Fatwire a Leader in their WCM for external Sites Quadrant. And the folks at Fatwire have already called two of their fellow-quads (for the lack of a better term), Interwoven and Vignette as legacy WCM products! Incidentally, Interwoven sits nicely in