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The IDUG Conference in Charlotte this year was one of the best-run North American Conferences I have been to. They rose close to the high standard that the IDUG European conference committee sets. I had fewer issues with how things ran.… Read the rest

This is my regular pre-conference blog entry. I write these every year to share details about the conference and to share my excitement for this form of education and networking. The IDUG conferences in the US and Europe are my favorite weeks of the year.… Read the rest

I’m a command line gal, and probably always will be. I doubt a GUI will tempt me away from the command line, though I do find myself enjoying using things like Jupyter Notebook to also access the databases I support.

Does Your Database Know Who You Are?

I learn something new every day. The times I’m most surprised about what I learn is when it happens to be something pretty fundamental about how Db2 uses resources.

Environment

This situation happened on an AIX environment I’m mentoring someone to build.… Read the rest

Learning SQL can feel intimidating, even to some experienced DB2 DBAs. For years, you could administer Db2 without using SQL. There are a lot of developers, too who want to learn SQL. The set-thinking of SQL can be confusing. The complete detachment from the physical layer can confound others.… Read the rest