The Problem I often lean on analogies when I speak to non-technical people about technical topics. For example, I would explain database locking as “two kids fighting for the same candy bar”. If you introduce isolation levels into the conversation,…
Today we are going to talk about some random DB2 features that can’t stand in a blog of their own, but are worth discussing nonetheless. These are tidbits I had discovered during “DB2’s Got Talent” presentations, IDUG conferences, or “Hey,…
Transaction log files are one of the core strengths of a DBMS, if you ask me. The ‘D’ in ACID refers to ‘Durability’. What Durability means is that once a transaction is committed, it is not lost, even if the…
This post is specific to WebSphere Commerce. I’m usually pretty critical of the IBM webcasts about WebSphere Commerce. There have been some pretty bad or incomplete ones in relation to WebSphere Commerce databases(“run dbclean” is the most frustrating, general advice…