When I first started learning about data science, the amount of material out there was daunting. It is hard to find your way in what you should learn and how you should learn. I thought I’d share what has been…
The IT industry is a change machine. It is full of change. It always has been. As I get older, I wonder if it really is changing more, or if I’m just becoming set in my ways. DevOps The first…
One topic that comes up at most panels, Technical Advisory Board meetings and other longer interactions I participate with for IBM is DBA’s love of db2top. It is such an easy tool, and one that most DBAs I know choose…
The IDUG Virtual conference kicked off today, and I thought I’d share my excitement and a few observations. Content Today Today was mostly the opening keynote and the spotlight sessions. Recordings of Monday’s sessions will be available on-demand for conference…
If you’ve read the blog for a while, you realize I’m a big fan of the IDUG conferences. I’ve gone to the North American one every year for the better part of a decade now, and the European one for…
Db2 is a bit unusual among RDBMSes in that it does not perform authentication. No matter what, you need some external authority to perform authentication. Usually that is either the OS or LDAP, though there are other options. If using…
It has been a while since I wrote one of these, and it’s about time! Recap In June of 2018, I set a new goal for myself. Long-term goal (by 2035): Work on data science in a way that makes…
What is IBM User Group Days? On May 19 and 20, IBM is hosting several tracks of great sessions. Some of these come out of content that would have happened at THINK, and others are collaborations with the user groups…
Purpose To list IDs that have one or more privileges, but do not have the CONNECT authority through a direct grant, a group, or a role, either explicitly or implicitly. I used this to find IDs I might need to…
I have seen the question several times on various groups or forums – “How do I install SQL?”. From a DBA standpoint, this isn’t even a properly formed question. From a developer learning standpoint the question makes sense. I needed…
This post is cross-platform and applies to all RDBMSes. It is interesting to see, as a person experienced with a technical tool, some of the disadvantages of the newer ways of learning technical topics. When I started in IT, you…
Edit 2020-01-02: corrected limit for free Db2 on Cloud to the correct 200 MB. Original text is still in the document, in strikeout. This is one of the few blog entries where I include the Db2 version number right in…
