Data Conversion

Here is your chance to provide IBM direct feedback on the consumability of their software products (specifically on Information Management products). Help make software products better by taking this consumability survey. Topcis covered are things like how easy/difficult is it to find the products you needed, install and

"IBM may open source DB2" is the headline headline in today's article by Tom Espiner on ZDNet.co.uk. The article is based on the interview with Chris Livesey, IBM UK director of information management. I posted a comment on the article but I figured I'd provide...

Well the IDUG North America 2008 conference is now over but it finished with an outstanding day last Thursday. For me the day started off with a special interest group meeting on The Changing Role of the DBA . Without a doubt the most discussed subject in the group was the increasing amount of time spent by database administrators as consultants/advisors to lines of business and application teams.

Half way through the conference and it was another full day here in Dallas. The morning started off with a keynote by Craig Fowler, author of My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book) . He had some very interesting insights. The first was that you should treat your career like a business and you are the product of that business. When you look at it that way, you can ask yourself,

Today was another full day here at the IDUG North America conference in Dallas. There was a lot more networking for me today talking with many DB2 customers. I also delivered my own presentation entitled "Using the New Administrative Views in DB2 9 to Monitor Your Database" which I think went quite well. In the

Today was the official opening of the 2008 IDUG North American conference here in Dallas. This is the 20th anniversary of the IDUG North American conference and it's my 11th year speaking at this event. The opening keynote was great in my opinion. Arvind Krishna, IBM Vice President, Data Management & Worldwide Information Management Development kicked it off with a great vision of where information

Just a heads up that if you are planning on attending the IDUG North American conference in Dallas which runs from May 18 to May 22 you should register soon. The early registration discount of $200 ends on April 18 so don’t delay (the money you save could be used to buy your favorite blogger a beer :-) If you have ever

This is great! Why is Google always the first to implement ideas like this. Even if you were late, you don't have to still be late. Google will let you have 10 emails that you can send back in time and have them appear in someone's inbox. It's called Google Custom Time. You can choose to have it appear read or unread. I'm

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I ran across this a few minutes ago on CNN: Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons creator, dies That's a shame. D&D gave me many of years of pleasure. From paper and dice in my teens to computer games, books and movies. Many

Next week I’m off to Sydney for a very busy and exciting IDUG Australasia 2008 conference. This will be my first time as a keynote speaker at a major IDUG conference (for those of you at the North American conference a few years back you may remember my bit part in the keynote). The conference is full of a