DB2 Version 4 Top Ten List.
Avoiding Lock Contention in a Client/Server Environment.
Data Compression - I/Os Go Down, CPU Time Goes Down??.
To Case or Not to Case.
Checking For Existence.
This page is here to provide DB2 tips, pointers & references to other resources for DB2, Oracle, Sybase & other databases. You can also e-mail me with your database design, programming & performance questions. I will try to answer them as best I can.
Each week I will provide a DB2 design tip. Past week's tips will also still be available.
I am the author of the DB2 PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT GUIDE ,
published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, and
IMS Administration,
Programming and Data Base Design from
J. Wiley and Sons.
Other good Internet DB2 sources include:
THE INTERNATIONAL DB2 USER'S GROUP
Information about the conferences and regional user groups.
BMC
CANDLE CORPORATION - including the
Candle Computer
Report - with excellent technical articles
COMPUWARE
Computer Associates
THE DB2 FAMILY
IBM SOFTWARE
IBM NEWS
Oracle
Sybase
Reveal - Supplies Windows knowledge
base of facts on Oracle and DB2
Programart - Makers of Strobe and
APMpower - application performance analysis tools.
RON RABE'S DB2 PAGE
- lots of other good DB2 links
Yevich, Lawson & Associates - DB2 tips and
white papers from a leading DB2 Expert
Designing Start &
Stop Dates.
DB2 Version 4 Top Ten
List.
Avoiding Lock Contention
in a Client/Server Environment.
Data Compression - I/Os
Go Down, CPU Time Goes Down??.
To Case or Not to
Case.
Checking For
Existence.