Db2 Experts on a Data Science Quest
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 over all others for real-time monitoring and basic investigation of a database.… Read the rest
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The IDUG Virtual conference kicked off today, and I thought I’d share my excitement and a few observations.
Today was mostly the opening keynote and the spotlight sessions. Recordings of Monday’s sessions will be available on-demand for conference attendees later in the week, so if you haven’t even registered yet, do so and replay them.… Read the rest
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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 several years.… Read the rest
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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 LDAP, either transparent LDAP or security plugins can be used.… Read the rest
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It has been a while since I wrote one of these, and it’s about time!
In June of 2018, I set a new goal for myself.
… Read the rest Continue reading »Long-term goal (by 2035): Work on data science in a way that makes the world a better place.
I recently discovered an interesting (and frustrating) issue while running PostgreSQL in Kubernetes. While the issue technically isn’t specific to Kubernetes, per se, it is certainly easy to encounter in Kubernetes for users of the official PostgreSQL Docker image (and many other images) mounting volumes somewhere other than the default location.… Read the rest
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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 from various technologies.… Read the rest
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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 grant CONNECT to before revoking connect from PUBLIC.… Read the rest
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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 Python, I went and downloaded Anaconda.… Read the rest
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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 learned some of the concepts in college, you learned some things working on the job with other DBAs who knew what they were doing, and you filled in the gaps by going to week-long classes once a year to get some detailed and hands-on official training.… Read the rest
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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 the title.… Read the rest
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Having worked on teams of Db2 DBAs, largely in consulting roles, the value of good documentation is huge. This is once again clear to me as I start a position with a new company. The documentation here happens to be excellent and it makes getting a new person (me!)… Read the rest
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