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March 2009 - Posts

• Upcoming Speaking Engagements

  Just a short blog post today to update everybody regarding my upcoming speaking schedule. First up, next week, is a speaking slot during the inaugural Enterprise Data World conference in Tampa, FL. Enterprise Data World bills itself as the business world’s Read More... Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 10:38 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: data governance, db2, database auditing, conferences, user groups

• To REBIND or Not to REBIND

  As regular readers of my blogs know, I sometimes choose to post answers to questions I get via e-mail. Today's post is one of those times! The question that was posed is this: When would you go for REBIND? Can rebinding be done for plans as well as Read More... Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:14 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: db2, proactive, SLA, REBIND, plans' packages, BIND

• Will IBM Acquire Sun?

  The Wall Street Journal reported today that IBM is in talks to acquire one of its arch-rivals in the server space, Sun Microsystems . There are a lot of reasons why IBM would be interested in Sun. The server business is obviously Sun's biggest business, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:45 AM by cmullins | 5 Comments Filed under: database news, MySQL, storage, IBM, servers

• Intelligent Automation of DBA Tasks

  To effectively manage enterprise databases, a DBA must understand both the business reasons for storing the data in the database and the technical details of how the data is structured and stored. These are two very different skill sets and in order to Read More... Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:11 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: DBA, proactive, automation, business

• Thoughts on Data Quality

  Data quality is an elusive goal. The more we try to keep accurate records in database systems, the more it seems that at least some of that data is just plain wrong. I've written on data quality issues before, but today I want to ruminate on some Read More... Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 2:02 PM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: DBA, DBMS, data quality, DA