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Just a quick post today to share my upcoming speaking schedule with you, my faithful blog readers. First up, next week (August 24 – 28, 2009) I’ll be at SHARE in Denver, Colorado. I’ll be there all week, but my two presentations are Read More...
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Anyone who uses an IBM z Series mainframe has probably heard about zIIPs and zAAPs and other specialty processors. But maybe you haven't yet done any real investigation into what they are, what they do, and why they exist. So, with that in mind, let's Read More...
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One of the more troubling trends for DBAs is keeping up with the latest version of their DBMSs. Change is a fact of life and each of the major DBMS products change quite rapidly. A typical release cycle for DBMS software is 18 to 24 months for major releases Read More...
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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...
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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...
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After listening to John Dvorak (on Cranky Geeks ) talk about Twitter I decided to give it a go. What is Twitter, you ask? Well, according to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" Read More...
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This week I am participating in the annual European IDUG conference in Athens, Greece . And, as usual, the conference is informative and enjoyable. This week there are over 120 educational presentations available covering everything from DBA and development Read More...
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This week I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the Central Canada DB2 User's Group . For those of you who are used to attending the typical DB2 user group, you should know that this is anything but the typical user group meeting. Now I Read More...
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Welcome to the 63rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. For those of you reading this who are not regular readers of my blog, my name is Craig S. Mullins and I’m a data management strategist for NEON Enterprise Software, Read More...
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For those of you who read my blogs because of my work in the world of DB2 for z/OS (that's the mainframe folks), I just want to make sure that you are aware of my DB2portal blog . I'm currently in the middle of an on-going series of posts about Read More...
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For those of you in DB2-land (mainframe only), there is a great new IBM redbook available on the latest and greatest version of DB2 - version 9. Actually, IBM is not using the "V" any more, so it is just DB2 9 - I wonder how long that will last? Read More...
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I receive quite a few questions via e-mail. That is fine, but I don't always get a chance to respond to everything. So, every now and then, I will use one of the e-mail questions in my in-box and write about it in my blog. Today's question is Read More...
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Hello, and welcome to my new blog hosted by NEON Enterprise Software . My name is Craig S. Mullins and I am the corporate technologist here at NEON Enterprise Software. Just what does that mean? Well, my job is multi-faceted. One component of the job Read More...
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