I have generally been a bit disappointed on the information coming out of IBM on supporting Commerce databases. I also meet clients who don’t believe they need a dba or that they can hire someone out of college or with minimal database experience to fill such a role.… Read the rest
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Data Movement Options for Commerce Databases – Synchronizing Data Between Commerce Environments
So one of the most common questions I get is about moving data between homogenous Commerce databases. Our standard setup includes 4 environments – Dev, QA, Stage, and Prod. Dev/QA are a stagingprop pair, Stage/Prod are a stagingprop pair, and Prod usually has HADR.… Read the rest
Continue reading »Never do runstats on volatile tables
Ok, so everyone will tell you that it doesn’t matter if you do runstats on volatile tables. The volatile flag is supposed to tell DB2 that the statistics are absolutely not correct, and heavily bias db2 to use indexes over table scans.… Read the rest
Continue reading »DB2 and Transparent LDAP
Ok, so I know I’m in the middle of a multi-part post on Data Movement between Commerce databases (and I will get back to that), but I found this and had to share it because I’m so excited DB2 has finally added support for it.… Read the rest
Continue reading »Data Movement Options for Commerce Databases – Creation of staging database during build
So one of the most common questions I get is about moving data between homogenous Commerce databases. Our standard setup includes 4 environments – Dev, QA, Stage, and Prod. Dev/QA are a stagingprop pair, Stage/Prod are a stagingprop pair, and Prod usually has HADR.… Read the rest
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Popping the Stored Procedure Cherry
Stagingprop – the high-level explanation
Registry Variables and DB2_WORKLOAD=WC
I was happy to see the new workload registry variable in Commerce 7/DB2 9. Mostly out of laziness – it requires fewer variables to be set manually, but it also ensures that nothing major is missed (I imagine they may come up with more that won’t be added to the workload registry variable in real time).… Read the rest
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