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3 Top Performance Strategies
Experts share secrets to getting the best performance from DB2, SOA environments, and XML applications.
Exploring Informix Dynamic Server 11
Informix guru Lester Knutsen explains how to get the IDS 11 up to full speed.
Understanding Optimistic Locking
Readers and writers can get along. All it takes is a positive outlook — and an optimistic approach to locking. Columnist Bonnie Baker explains why pessimism rarely pays.
Label-Based Access Control
Despite companies' best efforts to keep intruders out of networks and sensitive systems, more than 70 percent of data breaches are carried out by employees. Label-based access control makes it possible to grant and restrict read and write access to individual rows and columns based on an employee's job function, department, or other designated criteria. DB2 guru Roger E. Sanders how to implement this important security feature.
Understanding Table Spaces and Locking Levels
Yes, DB2 for z/OS programmers, you do acquire tablespace and table locks. Bonnie Baker cracks open the mysteries surrounding the different locking levels and when to use them.
Isolation Levels and Data Consistency
DB2 Magazine columnist Roger Sanders explains how to maintain data consistency by using the right DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, Unix, and Windows isolation level for the job.
THE COOL FACTOR: Modern developments stomp the mainframe-as-dinosaur myth for good
Set aside old notions of what a mainframe can and can't do. DB2 Magazine columnist Robert Catterall explains what many companies already know: the mainframe is a great platform for the most modern IT initiatives, including those that use service-oriented architectures, XML, J2EE applications, XML, and more. Download this new e-book to find out how your mainframe skills bring value to the latest technology projects.
XML FOR JAVA DEVELOPERS
DB2 9 introduced powerful XML management capabilities. Download this new e-book from DB2 Magazine to find out how the techniques you use every day can help you put that power to work. You'll learn XML programming tips for Java developers, see detailed Java application examples, and get a recap of all the new features and functions that ease Java development.
TAKING AIM AT PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS
Stop wasting time on hit-or-miss tuning exercises. Event monitors and snapshots show you exactly where to point your efforts.
SPOTLIGHT ON XML
DB2 9's "pureXML" technology introduces powerful XML management capabilities. Here's how to use the skills you already have to put that power to work.
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS: PERL, PHP, AND REXX
When it comes to Development, DB2 is open to all options. IBM's commitment to open, standards-based interfaces and its support for a range of tools mean that developers can build DB2 applications with the tools and programming languages they like.
This special e-book presents DB2-specific code, tips, and techniques for working with three increasingly popular choices: Perl, PHP and Rexx.
DEVELOPING DB2 APPLICATIONS: THE PLATFORM CHOICE IS YOURS
When it comes to application development, Java junkies and .Net devotees may never see eye to eye. If they're developing for DB2, they don’t have to. DB2 UDB
v.8.2 shipped earlier this year with something for every developer, regardless of platform preference. This must-read e-book highlights the latest in DB2 application development, with platform-specific examples, expert guidance, and more.
BRIDGING THE ISLANDS
Now you can connect Informix data with other corporate information. The result? An impressive enterprise view.
DB2 UDB THE AUTONOMIC COMPUTING ADVANTAGE
Getting the most from today's complex database systems is a challenge. Learn how self-managing capabilities in DB2 UDB v.8.2 do some of the work for you.
THE BIG LEAGUES
In this special e-book for Informix customers, you'll read how businesses are using the new release of Informix Dynamic Server, how Informix technology is finding its niche in the IBM world, and what IBM's Janet Perna says about the future of Informix at IBM.
THE PERFORMANCE DIARIES
This special e-book, compiled from three installments of Robert Catterall’s popular DB2 DBA column, brings you all the instructions you'll need to find these details and put them to use in your tuning efforts.
OPEN THE THROTTLE: Tuning DB2 UDB v.8.1
In this three-part series, database performance engineer Roger E. Sanders explains the seven tuning rules every DBA should know and gives a platform-specific guide to getting the best performance from your DB2 UDB implementation. Portable e-book format!
ON DEMAND: Real Companies, Real Benefits
A special editorial section for CEOs, CTOs, technology-focused executives and managers, and anyone interested in IBM's on-demand concept. These brief articles showcase real companies reaping real benefits from the information-on-demand approach — an infrastructure for getting the right information to the right person at the exact moment it's needed.
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