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From the editor: Site-warming gifts for the new DB2mag.com in the form of articles, blogs, and wiki entries.
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IBM news: Cheetah is ready to pounce.
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 From the Editor
Several guests (old friends and new) dropped in to DB2mag.com this month, bringing housewarming gifts for the new site. Highlights include:
* Extreme SQL Performance: Performance guru Sheryl Larsen explains how to optimize SQL, schema designs, performance structures, bufferpools, and storage to match your DB2 workload.
* DB2 for LUW performance tips: DB2 performance and security guru Scott Hayes brings advice from his popular DB2 LUW Performance Diagnosis Lab series to the DB2 Magazine blogs.
* Wiki Wisdom: Readers share their best tips on DB2 for z/OS encryption, DB2 data movement tools, DB2 and .Net, plus thoughts on the Informix community, cultural
paradigms, and life with DB2.
Also new on the site this month: The DB2 Magazine career center, featuring job listings and advice for tech professionals. |
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Cheetah is Ready to Pounce
IBM celebrated the release of Informix Dynamic Server 11 (codenamed "Cheetah") at the Informix development lab in Lenexa, Kansas, yesterday. Learn about the new features at the IBM Informix site or in "Run, Cheetah, Run," by Stuart Litel. The new Multinode Active Cluster for High Availability feature (known as MACH 11), gets a thorough write-up in Eric Herber's Informix Zone blog. Coming June 21: A webcast on the architect's view of
new Informix Dynamic Server features.
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DB2 Customer Ingenix Wins at TDWI
Healthcare information and research company Ingenix won The Data Warehouse Institute's 2007 Best Practices Award in the enterprise data warehouse category. TDWI's Best Practices Awards program identifies and honors companies that have demonstrated excellence in developing, deploying, and maintaining BI and DW applications. Winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges.
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In his recent column, Howard Fosdick suggests the no-cost DB2 Express-C as a way for certification candidates to get some hands-on DB2 experience while preparing for certification. Tell us what uses you've found for the free version of IBM's hybrid XML-relational data server. |
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MUST READ |
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DB2 9 for Developers
By Philip K. Gunning (MC Press, 2007)
This comprehensive guide covers planning, security, database objects, SQL, XQuery, XML, tables, views, indexes, and database concurrency. Each chapter contains a set of practice questions and thoroughly explained answers. Find out more about the book. |
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SKILLS SET |
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DB2 9 Book Discounts
Phil Gunning's book is just the latest volume on DB2 9. These two books are currently available at a discounted price through the IBM Information Management Bookstore:
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Information Management Certification Offers
Certification candidates can take up to three certification exams at no charge at the upcoming IBM Information On Demand 2007 conference, Oct. 14-19 in Las Vegas. Additional exams are available for $75 each. Get details about the available certification exams, discount vouchers, and pre-conference technical education on DB2mag.com's skills and education page.
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New Certification Exam and Tutorial Series: IBM Informix Dynamic Server V11 System Administration
To achieve this IDS certification credential, candidates must take and pass exam 918. This new exam includes seven sections containing a total of 71 multiple choice questions. Candidates have 120 minutes to complete the exam and must score 70 percent correct or greater to pass.
A new series of eight tutorials helps candidates prepare. A quick registration is required, and each tutorial should take less than two hours to complete.
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International DB2 User Group (IDUG) Updates:
IDUG recently posted the Spring 2007 issue of IDUG Solutions Journal to its Web site. The issue features user- and industry expert-authored articles on DB2 locking, reorg and automation, deep compression in DB2 9, and more. The conference schedule is now available for IDUG 2007 - Europe, 5-9
November 2007 in Athens, Greece. Completing an online registration survey brings a chance to win a complimentary registration.
The IDUG 2007 - North America wrap-up article is now available, and the 2008 North America Call for Presentations and Call for Volunteers are open at idug.org.
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