Db2 Experts on a Data Science Quest
Posts relevant to those new to DB2 administration
When I was in my early thirties, I was diagnosed with a learning disability. This really put my learning style into perspective. Teaching myself via a book was incredibly hard, and still is in some ways. Where I thrived was with hands on labs and engaging speakers.… Read the rest
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Recently I was forced outside my comfort zone and asked to vet various open source BI tools. I was a report developer in a past life, a database administrator supporting datamarts at various employers, and even supported Cognos backend databases. I thought my past experience gave me an edge when it came to evaluating BI tools.… Read the rest
Updated 11/22/2017: instructions on how to run the SQL statement
There are a number of places where we can store and change configuration for a Db2 server. I wanted to walk through the main areas and a few details about them.… Read the rest
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It’s that magical time of year again.
DBAs excitedly pack their bags for a week-long trip. On-call rotation is hurriedly passed to the next poor soul on the rotation list. Ember dons her trademark pigtails. Melanie Stopfer crams another 20 slides into and already packed presentation.… Read the rest
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This blog post was inspired by a DM on Twitter. A follower asked me for ideas on how to best interact with developers and how much expertise to give away. This is a big question with a vast array of correct answers.… Read the rest
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I’ll once again be attending IBM’s October Conference in Las Vegas. I can remember when it was focused on DB2, and the year they started calling it Information on Demand (IoD). Then they changed it to Insight, and this year it’s normally called World of Watson (WoW), though I’ve seen some references to it as “Insight at World of Watson”.… Read the rest
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Disclaimer: I am not an expert on Oracle RDBMS licensing. Please verify any and all licensing statements about IBM or Oracle before relying on them. I am likely biased towards IBM, having based my career on them, but am not an IBM employee.… Read the rest
Continue reading »Updated 11/22/2017: One-letter typo
If you only ever take the defaults, DB2 places all databases, data, and so forth on one filesystem – whatever filesystem is the home filesystem for the DB2 instance owner. If that is an isolated filesystem, this can be acceptable, but more often it is not, and this is a bad design.… Read the rest
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I find the DB2 sample database useful for trying new things and proving to myself how things work.
The DB2 sample database is useful for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes when building a new database server, we need to test connectivity from an application server or some random client into the new server.… Read the rest
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I’ve played with the clpplus at least once before, but have generally thought of it as a tool created to satisfy those coming from Oracle and looking for Oracle-like features. One of the features I actually liked about Oracle in the class and certification tests that I took for it was the ability to specify values for an SQL statement stored in a file on execution.… Read the rest
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I had been in conversation with a respected DBA who is a well known speaker and author. I had mentioned how difficult it is to come up with advanced topics to write and speak about. That is when he responded “Advanced topics only narrow the audience”.… Read the rest
Continue reading »Sometimes the connection state is unclear. The following can all make it fuzzy wether or not you have a valid connection:
This tip is strictly related to the DB2 command line.… Read the rest
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